G1031

βρύχω

bruchōG:V

to gnash

βρύχω (Attic, βρύκω), [in LXX: Job.16:10(9), Psa.34 (35):16 36 (37):12 111 (112):10, La 2:16 (חרק)* ;] __1. to bite or eat greedily. __2. to gnash, grind, with the teeth: Act.7:54. † (AS)

The KJV translates G1031 in the following manner:

gnashed (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

βρύχω — brýchō

βρύχω: (imperfect ἔβρυχον); to grind, gnash, with the teeth: ὀδόντας ἐπί τινα, Act 7:54 (Job 16:9; Psa 34:16; Psa 36:12 for בִּשְׁנַּיִם חָרַק and שִׁנַּיִם חָרַק; intransitive, without ὀδόντας (quoted in Hermippus ) Plutarch, Pericl. 33 at the end; (Hipp. (see Liddell and Scott))). Of the same origin as βρύκω (cf. δέχω and δέκω), to bite, chew; see Hermann on Sophocles Philoct. 735;Ellendt, Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word βρύκω).

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