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Gnaw (4 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Gnaw (4 Occurrences). Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack
and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. ...
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Bone (35 Occurrences)
... (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Job 30:17 In the night season
my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. ...
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Gloom (29 Occurrences)
... (See NAS RSV). Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry
ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. (WEB JPS ASV YLT). ...
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Gnats (5 Occurrences)

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Gaunt (7 Occurrences)
... So I awoke. (See RSV). Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the
dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. (WEB JPS ASV NAS). ...
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Gnawed (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Gnaw. Multi-Version Concordance
Gnawed (2 Occurrences). Revelation 16:10 The fifth poured ...
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Girdle (44 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To enclose; to environ; to shut in. 9. (vt) To make a cut or gnaw a groove
around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. Int. ...
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Gnaws (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Gnaws (1 Occurrence). Job 30:17 In the night season my
bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. (See RSV). ...
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Wasteness (4 Occurrences)
... Wasteness (4 Occurrences). Job 30:3 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw
the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. (See JPS ASV). ...
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Worm (22 Occurrences)
... See Worm, n. 5 (b). 18. (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue
of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. ...
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Bible Concordance

Gnaw (4 Occurrences)

Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)

Job 30:17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 23:34 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
(WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.

2. (v. t.) To bite in agony or rage.

3. (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

4. (v. i.) To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teeth something hard, unwieldy, or unmanageable.

Greek

5176. trogo -- to gnaw, munch, crunch
... to gnaw, munch, crunch. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: trogo Phonetic Spelling:
(tro'-go) Short Definition: I eat Definition: I eat, partake of a meal. ...
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3145. masaomai -- to chew
... to chew. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: masaomai Phonetic Spelling:
(mas-sah'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I bite, gnaw Definition: I bite, gnaw, chew. ...
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1044. gaggraina -- a gangrene, an eating sore
... Word Origin perhaps from grao (to gnaw) Definition a gangrene, an eating
sore NASB Word Usage gangrene (1). canker. From graino ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6207. araq -- to gnaw
... araq. 6208 . to gnaw. Transliteration: araq Phonetic Spelling: (aw-rak') Short
Definition: gnaw. ... root Definition to gnaw NASB Word Usage gnaw (1), gnawing (1). ...
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1633. garam -- to cut off, reserve
... 1632, 1633. garam. 1633a . to cut off, reserve. Transliteration: garam Phonetic
Spelling: (gaw-ram') Short Definition: bones. gnaw the bones, break ...
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1633b. garam -- to break bones, break
... Word Origin denominative verb from gerem Definition to break bones, break NASB Word
Usage crush (1), gnaw (1). 1633a, 1633b. garam. 1634 . Strong's Numbers
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Library

As to Your Charge of Perjury, Since You Refer Me to Your Book; and ...
... your manuscripts at Rome'? or that I might send out my dogs to gnaw away
your papers before they were corrected'? Can any one believe ...
/.../32 as to your charge.htm

Corn in Egypt
... He may gnaw the dry bones of his own good works; but if the Lord hath sent conviction
into his heart, he will gnaw them in vain; he may try to break the bones ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/corn in egypt.htm

WT Vn to the Christen Reader.
... sprite & life. It hath [with] out a barke/ a shell and as it were an hard
bone for [the] fleshly mynded to gnaw vppon. And within ...
/.../tyndale/the prophete ionas with an introduccion/w t vn to the.htm

The Philosophers
... and in warning its mates that the prey is found or lost, it would indeed also speak
in regard to those things which affect it closer, as example, "Gnaw me this ...
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The Sixt Part.
... very Angell, who by his writing hath begunne to powre out the fift viall upon the
throne of the beast, darkned his Kingdome, caused them to gnaw their tongues ...
/.../ward/a coal from the altar to kindle the holy fire of zeale/the sixt part.htm

Motives to Holy Mourning
... The brinish water of repenting tears will help to kill that worm of sin which should
gnaw the conscience. Gospel-mourning is an evidence of grace. ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/8 motives to holy mourning.htm

Argument: He Briefly Shows, Moreover, what Ridiculous, Obscene ...
... Mice, swallows, kites, know that they have no feeling: they gnaw them, they trample
on them, they sit upon them; and unless you drive them off, they build ...
/.../felix/the octavius of minucius felix/chapter xxiv argument he briefly shows.htm

The Simple Nature of the Soul is Asserted with Plato. The Identity ...
... show me their pupils. Moths also gnaw and eat: demonstrate to me their
mandibles, reveal their jaw-teeth. Then, again, gnats hum ...
/.../tertullian/a treatise on the soul/chapter x the simple nature of.htm

Phial the Fifth, on the Throne of the Beast.
... witnesses,) the name of the pontificate will not utterly perish, but will then be
despoiled of its glory and splendour, so that "they shall gnaw their tongues ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/mede/a key to the apocalypse/phial the fifth on the.htm

Song of Consolation for Married Christians.
... The streams of bliss flow constantly What bliss of angels is on high From hence
may we discover; No storm, No worm Can destroy it, Can e'er gnaw it, What God ...
/.../gerhardt/paul gerhardts spiritual songs/song of consolation for married.htm

Subtopics

Gnaw

Related Terms

Bone (35 Occurrences)

Gloom (29 Occurrences)

Gnats (5 Occurrences)

Gaunt (7 Occurrences)

Gnawed (2 Occurrences)

Girdle (44 Occurrences)

Gnaws (1 Occurrence)

Wasteness (4 Occurrences)

Worm (22 Occurrences)