Cud
גֵּרָהStrong’s H1625gerah (ge-rah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gerah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cud”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.”
Meaning
- Cud
How it's translated
- cud 8
- the cud 2
- and cud 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 6
- Deuteronomy 3
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:4Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- Leviticus 11:5And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- Leviticus 11:6And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- Leviticus 11:7And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:26The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
- Deuteronomy 14:6And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Hebrew dictionary
גֵּרָה gerah · cud
cud
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cud” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUD, noun
[See Chew and Jaw.]
- The food which ruminating animals chew at leisure, when not grazing or eating; or that portion of it which is brought from the first stomach and chewed at once.
- A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed.
- The inside of the mouth or throat of a beast that chews the cud
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.