גָּרַשׁ garash

Hebrew word for “to drive out” · Strong’s H1644 · used 47 times in 45 verses

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Meaning

: drive out; 1) to drive out, expel, cast out, drive away, divorce, put away, thrust away, trouble, cast up;

Senses in the lexicon

• to drive out: drive out (38)
• to drive out: divorce (9)

How it is translated

Glosses given for garash in context, with how often each is used:

• will drive out 11
• drove out 10
• divorced woman 4
• drive out 3
• drove away 2
• have driven away 1
• someone drove out 1
• completely 1
• had been driven out 1
• about to drive out 1
• has driven out 1
• did you drive out? 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 23 (4), Leviticus 21 (2), Numbers 22 (2), Joshua 24 (2), Judges 11 (2), Genesis 3 (1), Genesis 4 (1), Genesis 21 (1), Exodus 2 (1), Exodus 6 (1)

Forms

• ויגרשׁ 7
• גרשׁ 4
• וגרושׁה 4
• אגרשׁנו 2
• ויגרשׁו 2
• גרשׁת 1
• ויגרשׁום 1
• יגרשׁם 1
• יגרשׁ 1
• גרשׁו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with garash more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַלְמָנָה almanah “widow” 4
• אֱמֹרִי emori “Amorite” 4
• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 6
• חִוִּי chivvi “Hivite” 3
• עַתָּה attah “now” 5
• יָכֹל yakhol “be able” 4
• חִתִּי chitti “Hittite” 3
• צִרְעָה tsirah “hornet” 2
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 5
• כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani “Canaanite” 3
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 6
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 5

Key verses

The verses using garash that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 4:14 — Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;…
• Exodus 6:1 — Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive…
• Exodus 23:31 — And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the…
• Exodus 34:11 — Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the…
• Deuteronomy 33:27 — The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
• 1 Samuel 26:19 — Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if…
• 1 Chronicles 17:21 — And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by…
• Psalms 34:1 — [A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.] I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall…
• 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.
• Psalms 80:8 — Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
• Hosea 9:15 — All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more:…
• Amos 8:8 — Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.