Definition

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

Etymology

a primitive root; to be spare or skeleton-like; used only as a denominative from H1634 (גֶּרֶם);

Where the KJV renders it

• gnaw the bones
• break

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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