Strong’s H1641 · Hebrew
גָּרַר
gârar · gaw-rar'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to drag off roughly; by implication, to bring up the cud (i.e. ruminate); by analogy, to saw
In the King James Version catch, chew, [idiom] continuing, destroy, saw.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Leviticus 11:7And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
- 1 Kings 7:9All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
- Proverbs 21:7The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
- Jeremiah 30:23Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
- Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.