Bone
גְּרַםStrong’s H1635gerem (ge-rem)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gerem is the Aramaic word usually translated “bones their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.”
Meaning
- Bone
How it's translated
- bones their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
גְּרַם gerem · bone
bone Aramaic of ge.rem (גֶּ֫רֶם "bone" H1634)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bone” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BONE, noun
- A firm hard substance of a dull white color, composing some part of the frame of an animal body.
- A piece of bone with fragments of meat adhering to it.
All definitions and other forms of “bone”
BONE, verb transitive
To take out bones from the flesh, as in cookery.
- To put whale bone into stays.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.