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גָּרַשׁ

garash · drive out

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1644 · appears 47 times in the Bible

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What it means

garash (גָּרַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drive out”.

Cast out; also divorce.

How to say it

ga·rash

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 force someone out of their home or land.
  2. A woman whose husband sent her away.
  3. To toss up, as the sea tosses up mud.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To drive out, to expel someone from a place; said of a woman, to divorce her, to send her away from the marriage. The text also uses it of the sea that throws up mire and mud (Isaiah 57:20).

Historical and cultural background

The priest could not take as wife “a woman divorced from her husband” (Leviticus 21:7). Exodus 23:29 explains why YHWH would not drive out the nations in a single year: “lest the land become desolate”.

How we translate it

“Drive out” in its forms (“drive them out” 8 times, “drove out” 7, “Drive out” 5), as in Genesis 3:24, Genesis 21:10 and Exodus; it is distinct from הוֹרִישׁ, ‘dispossess’. The passive participle said of a woman is “divorced” (5), in the laws of the priest. In Isaiah 57:20, of the sea, “tossing”.

How it is translated

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

  • drive them out ×8
  • drove out ×7
  • Drive out ×5
  • divorced woman ×3
  • divorced ×2
  • driving out ×2
  • he will drive you out ×2
  • I drove them out ×1
  • I have been driven away ×1
  • I have driven it out ×1
  • others ×15

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 3:24

    And he drove out the man, and he stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the flame of the sword that turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

  • Genesis 4:14

    Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your presence I will be hidden; and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.”

  • Genesis 21:10

    And she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not inherit with my son, with Isaac.”

  • Exodus 2:17

    But the shepherds came and drove them away. Then Moses stood up and saved them and watered their flock.

  • Exodus 6:1

    YHWH said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

  • Exodus 10:11

    Not so! Go, you men, and serve YHWH, for that is what you are asking for.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

  • Exodus 11:1

    YHWH said to Moses, “One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you out from here completely.

  • Exodus 12:39

    They baked the dough that they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread, for it was not leavened, because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.

  • Exodus 23:28

    I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.

  • Exodus 23:29

    I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the animals of the field multiply against you.

  • Exodus 23:30

    Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you increase and take possession of the land.

  • Exodus 23:31

    I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I will give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out from before you.

  • Exodus 33:2

    And I will send before you an angel, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Exodus 34:11

    Keep for yourself what I am commanding you today. Look, I am driving out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Leviticus 21:7

    They shall not take a woman who is a prostitute or profaned, and they shall not take a woman divorced from her husband, for he is holy to his Elohim.

  • Leviticus 21:14

    A widow, or a divorced woman, or a profaned prostitute, these he shall not take; but a virgin of his own people he shall take as wife,

  • Leviticus 22:13

    But if the daughter of a priest becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child, and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; but no stranger shall eat of it.

  • Numbers 22:6

    And now, come, please, curse this people for me, for they are mightier than I. Perhaps I will be able to strike them and drive them out of the land; for I know that whom you bless is blessed, and whom you curse is cursed.”

  • Numbers 22:11

    ‘Look, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the face of the earth; now, come, curse them for me; perhaps I will be able to fight against them and drive them out.’”

  • Numbers 30:9

    But the vow of a widow or a divorced woman, everything that she has bound on her soul, shall stand against her.

  • Deuteronomy 33:27

    A dwelling place is the Elohim of old, and underneath are the eternal arms. And he drove out the enemy from before you and said, ‘Destroy!’

  • Joshua 24:12

    And I sent the hornet before you, and it drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorite; not with your sword and not with your bow.

  • Joshua 24:18

    And YHWH drove out all the peoples, and the Amorite who lived in the land, before us. We too will serve YHWH, for he is our Elohim.”

  • Judges 2:3

    So I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; they will become thorns in your sides, and their gods will be to you a trap.’”

  • Judges 6:9

    I delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all who oppressed you; I drove them out before you and gave you their land.

  • Judges 9:41

    Abimelech stayed at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, so that they could not live in Shechem.

  • Judges 11:2

    The wife of Gilead bore him sons; and the sons of the wife grew up and drove out Jephthah and said to him, “You shall not inherit in the house of our father, for you are the son of another woman.”

  • Judges 11:7

    Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did not you hate me and drive me out of the house of my father? Why have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”

  • 1 Samuel 26:19

    Now please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If YHWH has incited you against me, may he smell an offering; but if it is human beings, cursed be they before YHWH, for they have driven me out today so that I may not join the inheritance of YHWH, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

  • 1 Kings 2:27

    So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to YHWH, to fulfill the word of YHWH that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

  • 1 Chronicles 17:21

    And who is like your people Israel, one nation on the earth, whom Elohim went to rescue for himself as a people, to make for yourself a name of great things and awesome things, by driving out nations from before your people whom you rescued from Egypt?

  • 2 Chronicles 20:11

    look, they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you gave us to possess.

  • Job 30:5

    From the midst they are driven out; they shout at them as at a thief.

  • Psalms 34:1

    Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, and he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless YHWH at all times; continually his praise will be in my mouth.

  • Psalms 78:55

    And he drove out nations before them, and allotted them with a line as an inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

  • Psalms 80:8

    A vine out of Egypt you pulled up; you drove out nations and planted it.

  • Proverbs 22:10

    Drive out the scoffer, and strife will go out; and dispute and disgrace will cease.

  • Isaiah 57:20

    But the wicked are like the tossing sea, for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud.

  • Ezekiel 31:11

    I will give it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he will surely deal with it according to its wickedness; I have driven it out.

  • Ezekiel 44:22

    And a widow or a divorced woman they shall not take for themselves as wives, but virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel; or the widow who is the widow of a priest they may take.

And 7 more times.