גָּרַם
garam · break bones, gnaw
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1633 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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garam (גָּרַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “break bones, gnaw”.
Break the bones, gnaw them until they are clean.
How to say it
ga·ram
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
- To crack and chew bones.
- To save something for later.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- break ×1
- leave a bone ×1
- you will gnaw ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 24:8
El brings him out of Egypt; he has as it were the horns of the wild ox. He shall devour the nations, his adversaries, and break their bones, and with his arrows shatter them.
- Ezekiel 23:34
And you will drink it and drain it, and its shards you will gnaw, and your breasts you will tear, for I have spoken, declares Adonai YHWH.
- Zephaniah 3:3
Her officials in her midst are roaring lions; her judges, wolves of the evening that do not leave a bone for the morning.