garar · chew (the cud), drag

What it means

garar (גָּרַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chew (the cud), drag”.

Drag; said of an animal, chew the cud.

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. Haul off by force.
2. Bring up food and grind it again with the teeth.
3. To saw.
4. Whirl, come violently: a storm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• chew ×1
• he drags them ×1
• rushing ×1
• sawn ×1
• will drag them away ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Leviticus 11:7

  And the pig, for it divides the hoof and is split with a cleft in the hoof, but it does not chew the cud; it shall be unclean for you.

• 1 Kings 7:9

  All these were of costly stones, by the measures of hewn stone, sawn with the saw inside and outside, from the foundation to the copings, and from outside to the great court.

• Proverbs 21:7

  The devastation of the wicked will drag them away, because they refuse to do justice.

• Jeremiah 30:23

  Look, the storm of YHWH, fury, has gone out, a rushing storm; on the head of the wicked it will whirl.

• Habakkuk 1:15

  All of them he brings up with a hook; he drags them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet; therefore he rejoices and exults.