גֵּרָה
cud
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1625 appears in the Book of Leviticus — 6 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus
- Leviticus 11:3 גֵּרָ֖ה n c fs Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
- Leviticus 11:4 הַ/גֵּרָ֔ה גֵרָ֜ה ptcl def.art + n c fs n c fs "'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:5 גֵרָה֙ n c fs The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:6 גֵּרָה֙ n c fs The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:7 גֵּרָ֣ה n c fs The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:26 וְ/גֵרָה֙ conj + n c fs "'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
גרה (gêrâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “cud.” Leviticus dominates its distribution — 6 of 9 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Leviticus 11:3, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include גרר, גרגר and גרגרות. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1625 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 6 verses 67%
- Deuteronomy 3 verses 33%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 9 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Cud 10×
- American Standard Version†: Cud 10×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Cud 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Cud 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1625 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1625 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1625 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1625 across 13† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
גרה I ii. גֵּרָה v. sub גרר.
גרה II cud (Arabic جِرَّةٌ, so called from sound of rumination?)
גרה III a weight, 20th part of shekel, gerah (Assyrian girû, ZehnpfundBAS i. 506)
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. ii. גֵּרָה v. sub גרר.
II. n.f. cud (Arabic جِرَّةٌ, so called from sound of rumination?)—גֵּרָה Lv 11:3 + 10 times—cud, only in legislation of clean and unclean animals, and almost always c. (ֵי, ַת, ָה) מַעֲלֵה Lv 11:3, 4(×2), 5, 6, 26 (P) Dt 14:6, 7(×2); ג׳ יִגָּ֑ר (cf. גרר Niph.) Lv 11:7; Dt 14:8 has גֵּרָה without vb., but read there as Lv 11:7 (so Sam. 𝔊 Di).
III. n.f. a weight, 20th part of shekel, gerah (Assyrian girû, ZehnpfundBAS i. 506)—גֵּרָה Ex 30:13 + 4 times—Only in definition of שֶׁקֶל, c. num. עֶשְׂרִים Ex 30:13; Lv 27:25; Nu 3:47; 18:16; Ez 45:12.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גרר (gârar) (H1641) — to drag away.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גָּרָה
- , v. גרי
גֵּרָה I
- 1. gerah (a grain), name of a coin. Bekh. 50ᵃ
- 2. the seed of St. John’s bread, v. next w.
גֵּרָה II
- (גרר, v. גִּירָא II) a shoot, stalk (of flax or asparagus). Mekh. Mshp., N’zikin, s. 13 המערב את הג׳ בתלתן (Var. גֵּירָה, גררה) he who mixes (other) stalks among stalks of fenugrec; Yalk. Ex. 343; Tosef. B. Kam. VII, 8 גידה ed. Zuck. (Var. גירה, גורה). [Löw Pfl. p. 317: seed of St. John’s bread among seeds of fenugrec.]
גֵּרָה III
- (גרר, cmp. גָרוֹן, גַּרְגֶּרֶת)
- 1. [the rough, cmp. τραχεῖα,] throat, larynx with wind-pipe, lungs and heart. Tam. III, 1. Ib. IV, 3. Yoma II, 7.
- 2. (b. h.; ground food, cud. מַעֲלֵה ג׳ ruminant. Bekh. 6ᵃ; Sifra Sh’mini Par. 2, ch. III; a. e.
גֵּרָה IV
- f., v. גֵּר
גרי
- (b. h.)
- 1. to be rough, grating, scraping; v. גֵּרָה, גָּרוֹן &c.
- 2. to be hot, burn, singe (cmp. חָרָה).
- to incite, stir up, let loose. Snh. 107ᵇ שגי׳ דובים וכ׳ because he let the bears loose against the children. Ex. R. s. 21 ג׳ לפרעה He incited Pharaoh &c. Gen. R. s. 19, end (interpret. hishshiani, Gen. III, 13) גִּירַנִי. Cant. R. to I, 4 (play on משכני ib.) ממה שגֵּרִיתָ בי שכני הרעים from my hostile neighbors whom thou hast incited against me.—Trnsf. ג׳ את הדוב ב־ to let temptation loose against. Gen. R. s. 87 אני מְגָרֶה בך וכ׳ I shall lay temptation in thy way; a. fr.—Lev. R. s. 17 ביום שיְגָרֶה וכ׳ on the day when the Lord shall stir up his anger &c. e.g. Genesis 3:13
- , Nithpa. נִתְגָּרֶה
- 1. to be inflamed, jealous; to rival. Snh. 19ᵃ מִתְגָּרוֹת זו בזו jealous of one another.
- 2. to engage in battle, to fight. Ber. 7ᵇ; Meg. 6ᵇ מותר להִתְגָּרוֹת וכ׳ it is permitted to enter into combat with the wicked (with reference to b. h. התחרה).—Num. R. s. 19 נתג׳ בהם he attacked them.
- 3. to be let loose. Esth. R. introd. נִתְגָּרְתָה אותה הדוב that temptation was aroused (against Joseph), v. supra; Num. R. s. 13 מִתְגָּרַת.
- 4. to have a passion for, to indulge freely in. Yoma 76ᵇ wine is called תיר̇ש̇, because he המִתְגָּרֶה בו נעשה ר̇ש̇ who indulges in it becomes poor. Ab. Zar. 18ᵇ; 19ᵇ אֶתְגָּרֶה בשינה I will freely indulge in sleep (idleness).
- 5. (denom. of תִּגְרָה) to incite. Num. R. s. 18; Tanḥ. Koraḥ 3 להִתְגָּרוֹת בו את וכֹ׳ to incite Israel against him.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H1625 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֵּרָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 14:6 | 2 |
| הַ/גֵּרָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 14:7 | 2 |
| גֵרָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 14:8 | 1 |
| גֵרָ֜ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:4 | 1 |
| גֵרָ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 14:7 | 1 |
| גֵרָה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:5 | 1 |
| גֵּרָ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:7 | 1 |
| גֵּרָה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:6 | 1 |
| וְ/גֵרָה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1625, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- גרגר gargar H1620 berry
- גרגרות gargᵉrôwth H1621 neck
- גרה gêrâh H1626 gerah
- גרון gârôwn H1627 throat
- מגרה mᵉgêrâh H4050 saw
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
