חָרַק châraq — to grate the teeth
Translated in the KJV as gnash.
a primitive root; to grate the teeth.
châraq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Wayyiqtol 1
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›