To scrape
גָּרַדStrong’s H1623garad (ga-rad)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Garad is the Hebrew word usually translated “scrape himself”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.”
Meaning
- To scrape, scratch(Hithpael) to scrape oneself
How it's translated
- to scrape himself 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
גָּרַד garad · to scrape
1) to scrape, scratch 1a) (Hithpael) to scrape oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scrape” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCRAPE, verb transitive
[Latin scribo, Gr. to write. See Grave.]
- To rub the surface of any thing with a sharp or rough instrument, or with something hard; as, to scrap the floor; to scrape a vessel for cleaning it; to scrape the earth; to scrape the body. Job 2:8
- To clean by scraping. Leviticus 14:41
- To remove or take off by rubbing.“I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock” Ezekiel 26:4
- To act upon the surface with a grating noise.
All definitions and other forms of “scrape”
SCRAPE, verb intransitive
- To make a harsh noise.
- To play awkwardly on a violin.
- To make an awkward bow.
SCRAPE, noun
- A rubbing.
- The sound of the foot drawn over the floor.
- A bow.
- Difficulty; perplexity; distress; that which harasses. [A low word.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.