Lexical Definition

‎גָּרַם‎ gâram (gaw-ram') to reserve ^H:V
a primitive root; to be spare or skeleton-like; used only as a denominative from ‎גֶּרֶם‎

gnaw the bones, break.

• (causative) to bone, i.e. denude (by extensive, craunch) the bones

1) to cut off, reserve, lay aside, leave, save
1a) (Qal) to reserve
2) (Piel) to break bones, gnaw bones, break

See Greek: ὑπολείπω

Extended Information

• (Piel) to break bones, gnaw bones, break

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎גָּרַם‎] verb lay aside, leave, save **meaning dubious; ? cut off, hence reserve (Late Hebrew ‎גָּרַם‎ is shorten, occasion, bring about, to pass, Aramaic ‎גְּרַם‎ Pa`el occasion, bring about, abscidit, decrevit, compare also Arabic cut off (fruit), shear (sheep); — on connection of ideas see Fl NHWB^{i. 437}) Qal Perfect 3 plural ‎לֹא גָָֽרְמוּ לַבֹּקֶר‎ Zeph 3:3 they have left nothing for the morrow, in figure of cruel judges (dubious: al. from II. [‎גָּרַם‎], see Kau^AT Dr).

II. [‎גָּרַם‎] verb denominative break bones, break, —

Pi`el Imperfect ‎וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶם יְגָרֵם‎ Num 24:8 (JE); but also ‎וְאֶתחֲֿרָשֶׂיהָ תְּגָרֵ֖מִי‎ Ezek 23:34 (yet on text see Co.)

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