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To remove

הָגָהStrong’s H1898

hagah (ha-gah)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Hagah is the Hebrew word usually translated “remove” and “drove out”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.”
Proverbs 25:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to remove, drive out
How it's translated
  • remove 2
  • he drove out 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Proverbs 2
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

הָגָה hagah · to remove

(Qal) to remove, drive out

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “remove” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

REMOVE, verb transitive

[Latin removeo; re and moveo, to move.]

  1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark” Deuteronomy 19:14
  2. To displace from an office.
  3. To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.“REMOVE sorrow from thine heart” Ecclesiastes 11:10
  4. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
All definitions and other forms of “remove”
  1. To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.

REMOVE, verb intransitive

  1. To change place in any manner.
  2. To go from one place to another.
  3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.

REMOVE, noun

  1. Change of place.
  2. Translation of one to the place of another.
  3. State of being removed.
  4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
  5. Departure; a going away.
  6. The act of changing place; removal.
  7. A step in any scale of gradation.
  8. Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove
  9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.
  10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.
  11. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]

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.