גָּרַד gârad — to abrade
Translated in the KJV as scrape.
a primitive root; to abrade.
gârad in each stem
Hitpa'el
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Infinitive construct 1
לְהִתְגָּרֵ֖ד Job 2:8 Infinitive construct
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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 ›