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Strong H16332 sensesגָּרַם

to break bones · to reserve

Transliteration
gâram
Pronunciation
gaw-ram'

The 2 senses of Strong H1633

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H1633 appears in 3 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. to break bonesH1633B(Piel) to break bones, gnaw bones, break2 verses · Numbers, Ezekiel
  2. to reserveH1633Ato cut off, reserve, lay aside, leave, save1 verse · Zephaniah

General definition

A primitive root; to be spare or skeleton like; used only as a denominative from H1634; (causatively) to {bone} that {is} denude (by extension craunch) the bones: - gnaw the {bones} break.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • break2
  • gnaw1

First verses

  1. Numbers 24:8
    God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
  2. Ezekiel 23:34
    Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
  3. Zephaniah 3:3
    Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.