Lexical Definition

‎גָּרָה‎ gârâh (gaw-raw') to stir up ^H:V
a primitive root

contend, meddle, stir up, strive.

• properly, to grate, i.e. (figuratively) to anger

1) to cause strife, stir up, contend, meddle, strive, be stirred up
1a) (Piel) to stir up strife, excite strife
1b)(Hithpael)
1b1) to excite oneself against, engage in strife
1b2) to excite oneself (against foe), wage war

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎גָּרָה‎] verb only Pi`el stir up strife, Hithpa`el engage in strife (compare Late Hebrew Pi`el stir up, excite, against (‎בְּ‎) Hithpa`el; Aramaic Pa`el ‎גָּרֵא‎ ; especially Assyrian garû, Qal attack, be at war with, garû, girû, enemy, etc. Asrb^{Annals iv. 49, 50} (KB^{ii. 190}) also SASmith^{Assurbanipal i. ii. Glossary}; Arabic is run, especially of water, flow, etc.) —

Pi`el Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎יְגָרֶה‎ Prov 15:18; Prov 28:25; Prov 29:22, all with object ‎מָדוֺן‎ excite, stir up, strife. — On ‎גֵּרָה‎ Deut 14:8 see I. ‎גֵּרָה‎ below ‎גרר‎. Hithpa`el Perfect 2 feminine singular ‎הִתְגָּרִיתְ‎ Jer 50:24 Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎יִתְגָּרֶה‎ Dan 11:25, ‎וְיִתְגָּרֶ֯ו‎ vDan 11:10 2 masculine singular ‎תִּתְגָּרֶה‎ 2Kgs 14:19; 2Chr 25:19 jussive with apocope ‎תִּתְגָּר‎ Deut 2:9; Deut 2:19 3 masculine plural ‎יִתְגָּרוּ‎ Prov 28:4; Dan 11:10, compare Dan 11:10 Kt., see above; 2 masculine plural ‎תִּתְגָּרוּ‎ Deut 2:5 (jussive); Imperative masculine singular ‎הִתְגָּר‎ Deut 2:24 —

1. excite oneself against (‎בְּ‎ person), engage in strife with, literally Deut 2:5; Deut 2:19; 2Kgs 14:19 = 2Chr 25:19 (followed by ‎בְּרָעָה‎; — ‎רעה‎ personified as challenged opponent); also + accusative of manner, ‎מִלְחָמָה‎ Deut 2:9; Deut 2:24 figurative ‎וְשֹׁמְרֵי תוֺרָה יִתְגָּרוּ‎ ‎בָם‎ Prov 28:4 while they that keep the law are at strife with them, i.e. with those that forsake it.

2. absolute, excite oneself (against foe), wage war, only Dan 11: ‎יִתְגָּרוּ וְאָֽסְפוּ הֲמוֺן חֲיָלִים רַבִּים‎ vProv 28:10 they shall wage war, etc.; ‎וְיָשֹׁב וְיִתְגָּרֶ֯ו עַדמָֿעֻזֹּה‎ vProv 28:10 and he shall return and war, even to his stronghold; vProv 28:25 followed by ‎לַמִּלְחָמָה‎ + ‎בְּחַיִל גָּדוֺל‎ (instrumental)

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