Lexicon :: Strong's H1644 - gāraš

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for [fn]under compulsion he will [not only] let them go, but under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will most certainly drive you out of here completely.

“Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

“But the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.

“The eternal God is your refuge and dwelling place,

And underneath are the everlasting arms;

He drove out the enemy from before you,

And said, ‘Destroy!’

“They are driven from the community;

They shout after them as after a thief.

A Psalm of David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him out, and he went away.

I will bless the LORD at all times;

His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel

And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;

And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].

You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;

You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].

Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go away;

Even strife and dishonor will cease.

But the wicked are like the tossing sea,

For it cannot be quiet,

And its waters toss up mire and mud.

All their wickedness [says the LORD] is focused in Gilgal;

Indeed, I came to hate them there!

Because of the wickedness of their [idolatrous] practices

I will drive them out of My house (the land of Israel)!

I will love them no longer;

All their princes are rebels.

“Because of this [coming judgment] will the land not quake

And everyone mourn who dwells in it?

Indeed, all of it shall rise up like the Nile,

And it will be tossed around [from the impact of judgment]

And [afterward] subside again like the Nile of Egypt.

“Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight.

Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

“You evict the women (widows) of My people,

Each one from her pleasant house;

From her [young, fatherless] children you take away My splendor and blessing forever [by putting them among the pagans, away from Me].

For [this is the fate of the Philistines:] Gaza will be abandoned

And Ashkelon a desolation;

[The people of] Ashdod will be driven out at noon [in broad daylight]

And Ekron will be uprooted and destroyed.