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grs (e/u) vb. to learn or know by heart
GCGt
Gpəˁalto learn a text or oral tradition thoroughly1 sense▶
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to learn a text or oral tradition thoroughly
Gal, JBA, JBAg, LJLA
TgJ Jud20:16tos↗ פי<רוש> בבינת סערא כמא דגרס׳‏ : the explanation of בבינת סערא as we teach ; BT Šab 33b(32)↗ הוו יתבי עד צוורי^י^הו בחלא כולי יומא וגרסי‏ : they used to sit (in the cave while covered) up to their necks in sand the entire day and study ; HP Sassoon(1) 189.5↗ מיתבעי ליה לאיניש לצלויי היכא דגריס‏ : a person needs to pray as he has learned ; PJ Deut11:19↗ ותלפון יתהון ית בניכון למגרס{א} בהון‏ : you should teach your children to study them thoroughly
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to know and/or recite by heart
JBA
BT Ber 47b(31)↗ דכיון דשמע שמעתא דרבנן וגריס להו‏ : as soon as he hears the legal traditions of the scholars and knows them by heart
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to have a textual tradition of interpretation
JBA
TgJ Jud20:16tos↗ פי׳ בבינת סערא כמא דגרס׳ כמשחל בינתא מחלבא‏ : the meaning of "on a hair of barley" is as we interpret it: like straining a hair out of milk ; BT Qid 6a(7)↗ תנא תלת תלת שמעינהו וגרסינהו‏ : the tanna heard them as three each and so he tradited them
Cˀafˁelto teach1 sense▶
to teach
JBAg
Gtˀeṯpəˁelto be learned as a textual or oral tradition1 sense▶
to be learned as a textual or oral tradition
JBAg
OHT Ned 8:25 גמרא דילן עלה תרין לישני גריס‏ : our gemara has been learned as two (different) texts about it
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Both grs#1 and grs#2 are almost certainly from the same original lemma, the etymon of various nouns for "crushed grain." Here the metaphoric meaning of "to go through something in a very finely detailed manner" has prevailed. In grs#2 the literal meaning "to crush" has been generalized (in the D stem) as "to destroy" and then an intransitive formed by back-formation as the G in Syriac.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 137aDJBA: 303Jastrow: 270Levy Ch-W: 1:155

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