English Word
SCRAPER
Edenic Word
(Ma)GRaiPHaH
Hebrew Word
מגרפה
Transliteration
Mem-Gimel-Resh-Phey-Hey
Pronounciation
(Ma)-GRAYF-ah
Conversion
[G-R-PH → KRP]
Meaning
hoe, furrow
Roots
Old Norse skrapa (to scratch) is traced
to Indo-European “root” sker or ker (to cut). See SCORE.
Spanish scratch, (es)carbar, reveals the “S” of SCRAPE to be
unhistoric. Many “S”s before gutturals are from various prefixes or are
otherwise nonhistoric, see SCOOP.
A garden rake is a scraper and a (S)CRAPER is a
"hoe" or (Mi)GRayPHaH (Joel1:17). The word is
elsewhere rendered "furrow."
See CURT for KR words of cutting short.
Branches
GaLaBH is to scrape
or shave; K[H]eReBH is a sword or blade.
One can
hear GRAPH in the captioned Hebrew term, even if one doesn't have a Texas drawl. Cognates of GRAPH at Indo-European “root” gerbh (to scratch) include AGRAPHA,
CARVE, CRAB, CRAWL, CRAYFISH, DIAGRAM, EPIGRAM, EPIGRAPH, GRAFFITTI, GRAM, -GRAM,
GRAMMAR, -GRAPH, GRAPHITE, ICONOGRAPHY, PARAGRAPH, PROGRAM, PSEUDEPIGRAPHA,
TETRAGRAMMATON, and TOPOGRAPHY. K[H]aPHaR (to dig) is akin to a KRP cutting
term – see GOPHER.
See
CARVE, CRAB, GRADE, and
GRAPHITE.
For the
bogus initial-S before K or hard-C words, see SCOOP.
Bible Verses
Joel 1:17 עבשׁו פרדות תחת מגרפתיהם נשׁמו אצרות נהרסו ממגרות כי הבישׁ דגן׃
“The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.”
Strong
(4053)
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