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Psalms 78:55
“He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
גָּרַשׁgârash · gaw-rash'
H1644 · Hebrew
H1644 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- cast up (out), divorced (woman), drive away (forth, out), expel, [idiom] surely put away, trouble, thrust out.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יְגָ֤רֶשׁ — verb Piel, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 47 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:24Genesis 4:14Genesis 21:10Exodus 2:17Exodus 6:1
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גָּרַשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.