To grind
חָרַקStrong’s H2786charaq (cha-raq)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “has gnashed”, “gnashed” and “gnashing”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to gnash, grind (the teeth)
How it's translated
- he has gnashed 1
- they gnashed 1
- and gnashing 1
- he will gnash 1
- and they have gnashed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Job 1
- Lamentations 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 35:16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- Psalms 37:12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
- Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
- Lamentations 2:16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
Hebrew dictionary
חָרַק charaq · to grind
(Qal) to gnash, grind (the teeth)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRIND, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive ground. [This word, if n is radical, may be allied to rend; if not, it coincides with grate; to make smooth, as mollis in Latin, allied to molo.]
- To break and reduce to fine particles or powder by friction; to comminute by attrition; to triturate.“Take the millstones and grind meal” Isaiah 47:2
- To break and reduce to small pieces by the teeth.
- To sharpen by rubbing or friction; to wear off the substance of a metallic instrument, and reduce it to a sharp edge by the friction of a stone; as, to grind an ax or scythe.
- To make smooth; to polish by friction; as, to grind glass.
All definitions and other forms of “grind”
- To rub one against another.
- To oppress by severe exactions; to afflict cruelly; to harass; as, to grind the faces of the poor Isaiah 3:15
- To crush in pieces; to ruin. Matthew 21:44
- To grate; as grinding pains.
GRIND, verb intransitive
To perform the operation of grinding; to move a mill.
- To be moved or rubbed together, as in the operation of grinding; as the grinding jaws.
- To be ground or pulverized by friction.
- To be polished and made smooth by friction.
- To be sharpened by grinding.
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.