גָּרָב
garav · itch, scab
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1618 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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garav (גָּרָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “itch, scab”.
Scabies: a skin disease that itches badly.
How to say it
ga·rav
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
- A skin disease that itches badly.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- scabs ×2
- itch ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 21:20
or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or scabs, or sores, or damaged testicles.
- Leviticus 22:22
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or with warts, or with an itch, or with scabs: you shall not present these to YHWH, and you shall not give from them a fire offering on the altar to YHWH.
- Deuteronomy 28:27
YHWH will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with scabs and with itch, from which you will not be able to be healed.