Lexical Definition

‎גֵּרָה‎ gêrâh (gay-raw') cud ^H:N-F
from ‎גָּרַר‎

cud.

• the cud (as scraping the throat)

1) cud

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎גֵּרָה‎ noun feminine cud (Arabic , so called from sound of rumination ?) — ‎גֵּרָה‎ Lev 11:3 + 10 t. — cud, only in legislation of clean and unclean animals, and almost always with (‎יֵ֯‎, ‎תַ֯‎, ‎הָ֯‎) ‎מַעֲלֵה‎ Lev 11:3; Lev 11:4 (twice in verse); Lev 11:5; Lev 11:6; Lev 11:26 (P) Deut 14:6 (twice in verse); Deut 14:7 ‎יִגָּ֑ר‎ ‎׳‎‎ג‎ (compare ‎גרר‎ Niph`al) Lev 11:7; Deut 14:8 has ‎גֵּרָת‎ without verb, but read there as Lev 11:7 (so ⅏ ᵐ5 Di).

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