gara · provoke, engage in strife

What it means

gara (גָּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “provoke, engage in strife”.

Stir up: provoke someone to fight with him; also to engage in battle.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To pick a fight with someone.
2. To make war on someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• provoke ×6
• stirs up ×3
• will wage war ×2
• contend ×1
• wage war ×1
• you engaged in strife ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×4
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×4
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×3

• Deuteronomy 2:5

  do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even the treading of the sole of a foot, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

• Deuteronomy 2:9

  YHWH said to me, “Do not harass Moab or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of its land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 2:19

  and you will come near opposite the sons of Ammon. Do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 2:24

  “Rise up, set out, and cross the Wadi Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and provoke him to war.

• 2 Kings 14:10

  You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Glory in it, and stay in your house. Why should you provoke evil and fall, you and Judah with you?”

• 2 Chronicles 25:19

  You have said, ‘Look, I have struck Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up to glory in it. Now stay in your house. Why should you provoke evil and fall, you and Judah with you?”

• Proverbs 15:18

  A man of wrath stirs up strife, but one who is slow to anger calms a dispute.

• Proverbs 28:4

  Those who abandon instruction praise the wicked, but those who keep instruction contend with them.

• Proverbs 28:25

  The broad of soul stirs up strife, but whoever trusts in YHWH will be enriched.

• Proverbs 29:22

  A man of anger stirs up strife, and a master of wrath is great in transgression.

• Jeremiah 50:24

  I set a snare for you, and indeed you were caught, Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and indeed seized, because you engaged in strife against YHWH.

• Daniel 11:10

  And his sons will wage war and gather a multitude of great forces, and one will come surely and overflow and pass through, and return and wage war up to his stronghold.

• Daniel 11:25

  And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with a great army, and exceedingly mighty, but he will not stand, for they will devise plans against him.

And 1 more times.