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Lexicon :: Strong's H1644 - gāraš

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גָּרַשׁ
Transliteration
gāraš
Pronunciation
gaw-rash'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 388

Strong’s Definitions

גָּרַשׁ gârash, gaw-rash'; a primitive root; to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce:—cast up (out), divorced (woman), drive away (forth, out), expel, × surely put away, trouble, thrust out.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x

The KJV translates Strong's H1644 in the following manner: drive out (20x), cast out (8x), thrust out (6x), drive away (2x), put away (2x), divorced (2x), driven (1x), expel (1x), drive forth (1x), surely (1x), troubled (1x), cast up (1x), divorced woman (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x
The KJV translates Strong's H1644 in the following manner: drive out (20x), cast out (8x), thrust out (6x), drive away (2x), put away (2x), divorced (2x), driven (1x), expel (1x), drive forth (1x), surely (1x), troubled (1x), cast up (1x), divorced woman (1x).

  1. to drive out, expel, cast out, drive away, divorce, put away, thrust away, trouble, cast up

    1. (Qal) to thrust out, cast out

    2. (Niphal) to be driven away, be tossed

    3. (Piel) to drive out, drive away

    4. (Pual) to be thrust out

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גָּרַשׁ gârash, gaw-rash'; a primitive root; to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce:—cast up (out), divorced (woman), drive away (forth, out), expel, × surely put away, trouble, thrust out.
STRONGS H1644: Abbreviations
† [גָּרַשׁ] verb drive out, cast out (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic גְּרַשׁ Pa. Ithp. of divorce, MI19 ויגרשה) —
Qal Imperfect וַיִּגְרְשׁוּ Isaiah 57:20; Infinitive suffix מִגְרָשָׁהּ Ezekiel 36:5 below; Participle active גֹּרֵשׁ Exodus 34:11; passive feminine גְּרוּשָׁה Leviticus 21:7 + 4 times; — cast our, thrust out, י׳, the Amorites Exodus 34:11 (J E; with מִמְּנֵי); waters, mire and dirt רֶפֶשׁ וָטִיט Isaiah 57:20; passive only of divorced woman Leviticus 21:7 (followed by מֵאִישָׁהּ; elsewhere with אַלְמָנָה widow), Leviticus 21:14; Leviticus 22:13 (all H), Numbers 30:10 (P) Ezekiel 44:22. On מִגְרָשָׁהּ Ezekiel 36:5 as Aramaic Infinitive compare Ges§ 45 1. c. Köi 166; Co strike out, on internal grounds, compare Greek Version of the LXX
Niph. Perfect נִגְרָ֑שׁ Isaiah 57:20; 3rd person feminine singular וְנִגְרְשָׁה consecutive Amos 8:8; נִגְרַשְׁתִּי Jonah 2:5; — be driven away, followed by מִנֶּגֶד עֵינֶיךָ, i.e. from the presence of Yahweh Jonah 2:5; be driven, tossed, as the Nile Amos 8:8; of the sea Isaiah 57:20 rel. clause, אֲשֶׁר omitted, like the sea that is tossed.
Pi. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular וְגֵרְשָׁה consecutive Exodus 23:28; גֵּרַשְׁתָּ Genesis 4:14, suffix 3rd person masculine plural וְגֵרַשְׁתָּמוֺ consecutive Exodus 23:31; וְגֵרַשְׁתִּ֫י Exodus 33:2, suffix גֵּרַשְׁתִּיהוּ Ezekiel 31:11 (so Targum Vulgate, not Greek Version of the LXX; compare Co's conjecture); וְגֵּרַשְׁתִּיו consecutive Numbers 22:11; 3rd person plural suffix גֵּרְשׁוּנִי 1 Samuel 26:19; Imperfect יְגָרֵשׁ Exodus 11:1, וַיְגָ֫רֶשׁ Genesis 3:24 + 6 times; suffix וַיְגָרֲשֵׁהוּ Psalm 34:1, יְגָָֽרֲשֵׁם Exodus 6:1; 2nd person masculine singular תְּגָרֵשׁ Psalm 80:9, וַתְּגָ֫רֶשׁ Joshua 24:12; אֲגָרֵשׁ Judges 2:3, וָֽאֲגָרֵשׁ Judges 6:9; suffix 3rd person masculine singular אֲגָרְשֶׁנּוּ Exodus 23:29,30; Numbers 22:6; אֲגָֽרֲשֵׁם Hosea 9:15; וַיְגָֽרֲשׁוּ Judges 11:2; יְגָרְשׁוּהָ Zephaniah 2:4, וַיְגָרְשׁוּם Exodus 2:17; 2nd person masculine plural תְּגָֽרֲשׁוּן Micah 2:9, וַתְּגָֽרֲשׁוּנִי Judges 11:7; Infinitive construct לְגָרֵשׁ 1 Chronicles 17:21 + || 2 Samuel 7:23 Gei We Dr, for MT לארצך; לְגָָֽרֲשֵׁנוּ 2 Chronicles 20:11; absolute id. Exodus 11:1; Imperative גָּרֵשׁ Genesis 21:10; Proverbs 22:10; — drive out, away, Hexateuch all J E, including poem Deuteronomy 33; (י׳ subject), Adam from garden Genesis 3:24 compare Cain Genesis 4:14 (followed by מִן local, & so + 21 times), David (men subject) 1 Samuel 26:19, id. (Abimelech subject) Psalm 34:1 (title), Hagar (Abraham subject) Genesis 21:10 compare scorner, Proverbs 22:10 daughters of Reuel (subject shepherds) Exodus 2:17; Moses and Aaron from Pharaoh's presence (indefinite subject) Exodus 10:11; Gaal etc. (subject Zebul) Judges 9:41 (followed by מִן with Infinitive), Jephthah (Gil. subject) Judges 11:2,7; Abiathar (subject Solomon) 1 Kings 2:27 (followed by מִן with Infinitive) wicked from temple (י׳ subject) Hosea 9:15; women from houses (nobles subject) Micah 2:9; often of Canaanites (hornet subject) Exodus 23:28; Joshua 24:12 compare Exodus 23:31 (Israel subject); also (י׳ subject; compare MI19) Exodus 23:29,30; Exodus 33:2; Deuteronomy 33:27; Joshua 24:18; Judges 2:3; Judges 6:9; Psalm 78:55; Psalm 80:9; 1 Chronicles 17:21; of Israel from Egypt (subject Pharaoh) Exodus 6:1; Exodus 11:1 (twice in verse); from land of Moab (subject Balak) Numbers 22:6, 11; Judah from Canaan (subject Moab & Ammon) 2 Chronicles 20:11; Egypt from her land (י׳ subject) Ezekiel 31:11 (but compare text, above); Ashdod (indefinite subject) Zephaniah 2:4.
† Pu. Perfect גֹּרְשׁוּ subject Israelites Exodus 12:39; Imperfect יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ subject despised and miserable outcasts Job 30:5 both followed by מִן local.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:24; 3:24; 4:14; 4:14; 21:10; 21:10

Exodus

2:17; 2:17; 6:1; 6:1; 10:11; 11:1; 11:1; 11:1; 12:39; 23:28; 23:28; 23:29; 23:29; 23:30; 23:30; 23:31; 23:31; 33:2; 33:2; 34:11; 34:11

Leviticus

21:7; 21:7; 21:14; 22:13

Numbers

22:6; 22:6; 22:11; 22:11; 30:10

Deuteronomy

33; 33:27

Joshua

24:12; 24:12; 24:18

Judges

2:3; 2:3; 6:9; 6:9; 9:41; 11:2; 11:2; 11:7; 11:7

1 Samuel

26:19; 26:19

2 Samuel

7:23

1 Kings

2:27

1 Chronicles

17:21; 17:21

2 Chronicles

20:11; 20:11

Job

30:5

Psalms

34:1; 34:1; 78:55; 80:9; 80:9

Proverbs

22:10; 22:10

Isaiah

57:20; 57:20; 57:20; 57:20

Ezekiel

31:11; 31:11; 36:5; 36:5; 44:22

Hosea

9:15; 9:15

Amos

8:8; 8:8

Jonah

2:5; 2:5

Micah

2:9; 2:9

Zephaniah

2:4; 2:4

H1644

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1644 matches the Hebrew גָּרַשׁ (gāraš),
which occurs 47 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:17 - The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:11 - No! Go, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:39

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:39 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28 - And I will send hornets[fn] before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:30 - Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,[fn] for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2 - I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:11 - “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7 - They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin[fn] of his own people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if a priest’s daughter is widowed 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; yet no lay person shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - ‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:9 - (But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27 - The eternal God is your dwelling place,[fn]
and underneath are the everlasting arms.[fn]
And he thrust out the enemy before you
and said, ‘Destroy.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - And the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:3 - So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:9 - And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons. And when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the LORD who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:27 - So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - And who is like your people Israel, the one[fn] nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:11 - behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:5 - They are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:1 - [fn] Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.
I will bless the LORD at all times;
his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:55

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:55 - He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 80:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:8 - You brought a vine out of Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:10 - Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out,
and quarreling and abuse will cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:20 - But the wicked are like the tossing sea;
for it cannot be quiet,
and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:11 - I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:22 - They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:15 - Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all their princes are rebels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:4 - Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:9 - The women of my people you drive out
from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
my splendor forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:4 - For Gaza shall be deserted,
and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;
Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon,
and Ekron shall be uprooted.
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