Words the Bible translates as drive out
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- yarashיָרַשׁto take possession of land or property, often by driving out whoever held it before
+1 more meaning
- to be stripped of what you own and fall into poverty
- ekballōἐκβάλλωto drive, throw, or force out: removing someone or something from a place by power or compulsion
+2 more meanings
- to send out or dispatch: commissioning someone to go forth for a purpose
- to bring out or produce: drawing something from within a container, source, or inner resource
- nadaḥנָדַחto drive away: to push or force someone or something out of where it belongs.
- garashגָּרַשׁto drive out by force: to expel a person or group from a place they would otherwise stay
- hadaphהָדַףto push someone or something away by force, shoving it out of the place it held
- nashalנָשַׁלto come loose from whatever was holding it, or to work something loose: a sandal off a foot, an axe head off its handle, a settled people off their land
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