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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #1634 - גֶּרֶם
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- bone, strength, bare?, self?
- bone
- strength, strong-boned
- self?, bare? (of stairs)
- Book
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did not use
this Strong's Number
2084) mrc (גרמ GRM) AC: Gnaw CO: Bones AB: ?: As a dog gnaws on a bone. [from: hm- from the marrow inside the bones]
V) mrc (גרמ GRM) - Gnaw: KJV (3): (vf: Paal, Piel) break, gnaw - Strongs: H1633 (גָּרַם)
Nm) mrc (גרמ GRM) - Bones: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (6): bone, strong, top - Strongs: H1634 (גֶּרֶם), H1635 (גְּרַם)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
body, Aramaic גְּרַם, 
bone, self) — absolute גָּ֑רֶם Genesis 49:14 2t.; construct גֶּרֶם 2 Kings 9:13; suffix גְּרָמָיו Job 40:18; 1 bone Proverbs 17:22 (collective) Proverbs 25:15; of behemoth (hippopotamus) Job 40:18 ("" עצם q. v.)
2 strength Genesis 49:14 חֲמֹר גָּ֑רֶם strong ass (literally bony, so VB).
3 self (compare עצם), 2 Kings 9:13 גֶּרֶם הַמַּעֲלוֺת so Ges Ew Ke, but text dubious, see conjectures in Klo.
[גְּרַם] noun [masculine] bone (Biblical Hebrew גֶּ֫רֶם; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic 
Schulth Lex. 46); — plural suffix גַּרְמֵיהוֺן Daniel 6:25.
גֶּרֶם m.
(1) a bone, i.q. עֶצֶם, but more rarely, and only poet. Proverbs 17:22, 25:15. Pl. Job 40:18. (Syr., Ch. ܓܪܰܡ, ܓܰܪܡܐܳ, גַּרְמָא, Sam. Obadiah 1:5 id., Arab. جِرْمُ body. The letter r, and the sibilant being interchanged, it is kindred to גֶּשֶׁם, جِسْمُ and עֶצֶם itself.
(2) body, as in Arabic. Genesis 49:14, חֲמוֹר גֶּרֶם “an ass of a great and powerful body,” i.e. powerful, robust. Vulg. asinus fortis. So also in Arab. جِرْمُ body, is used of a beast of burden, as فرس جرم a horse of a large body, حمار جرم a strong ass; and the same is expressed with the peculiar adjective جريم.
(3) substance of a thing, a thing itself, like עֶצֶם a bone, himself. 2 Kings 9:13, “and they took every one their garments and put them under him הַמַּעֲלוֹת אֶל־גֶּרֶם upon the steps themselves.”
גֶּרֶם Ch. a bone, Daniel 6:25.
