גָּרַשׁ gârash — to drive out from a possession
Translated in the KJV as cast up, divorced, drive away (forth, out), expel, × surely put away, trouble, thrust out.
a primitive root; to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce.
gârash in each stem
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 13Imperfect (yiqtol) 10Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 2Infinitive construct 2Infinitive absolute 1
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 5Participle (active) 1Wayyiqtol 1
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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 ›
