לְ/גָרֵ֗שׁ

𐤋/𐤂𐤓𐤔

legaresh

by driving out

a primitive root; to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce; cast up (out), divorced (woman), drive away (forth, out), expel, [idiom] surely put away, trouble, thrust out.

H1644

1 Chronicles 17:21 · Word #18

Lexicon H1644

Lemmaגָּרַשׁ
Lemma (Paleo)𐤂𐤓𐤔
Transliterationgârash
Strong'sH1644
In-contextby driving out

Morphology HR/Vpc All morphology codes

Part of Speech V — Verb — An action or state
Binyan p — Piel — Intensive active
Conjugation c — Infinitive Construct — The verbal noun ("to ...")

SIBI-P1 H1644-11

to forcefully drive out

Rootגרש (g-r-sh)
Core Meaningsdriving out, expelling, banishing, casting away, divorcing
Semantic Rangeto expel from land, to banish, to cast out, to divorce a wife, to thrust away, to remove forcibly from possession or presence
Conceptual Significanceגרש frequently describes the removal of peoples from land, whether divine judgment driving nations out before Israel or Israel being expelled for covenant unfaithfulness. It also carries legal significance in the context of divorce, reflecting the severing of covenantal or territorial bonds.
Morphological NotesVerb, Piel stem, infinitive construct with prefixed לְ ("to/for"). The Piel stem often conveys an intensive or factitive nuance of the root action.
Rendering RationaleThe root גרש conveys the act of driving someone out or expelling them from a place or relationship. The Piel stem (Vpc) intensifies the action, justifying "forcefully drive out," and the infinitive construct with prefixed לְ indicates purpose or result, hence "to drive out."

AI-generated (openai/gpt-5.2-chat-latest)

Words from Root גרש (driving out, expelling, banishing, casting away, divorcing)

SILEX Code Transliteration SIBI-P1
H1644-01 agaresh I will expel
H1644-02 agareshem I will forcefully drive them out
H1644-03 agareshenu I will drive him out

Word Usage (47 occurrences of H1644)

Location Form Transliteration Meaning
Genesis 3:24 וַ/יְגָ֖רֶשׁ vayegaresh he drove out
Genesis 4:14 גֵּרַ֨שְׁתָּ gerasheta you have driven
Genesis 21:10 גָּרֵ֛שׁ garesh Drive out