גָּרַם gâram — to be spare or skeleton-like
Translated in the KJV as gnaw the bones, break.
a primitive root; to be spare or skeleton-like; used only as a denominative from H1634; (causative) to bone, i.e. denude (by extensive, craunch) the bones.
gâram in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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 ›