to drive out: drive out
ga.rash denotes forcing people or nations out, and can also describe a woman as divorced or waters being driven about.
The verb chiefly describes removing persons or peoples from a place, especially driving inhabitants or hostile nations out before someone else. Its passive forms describe persons who have been expelled, including a divorced woman, while several passages apply the movement imagery to waters that are driven or cast about.
Senses in use
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Expelling peoples or inhabitants from a place · dominant
In Exodus 23:28 the APB renders the clause as the hornet driving named peoples out from before Israel, and Exodus 23:30 describes this removal as happening little by little. Joshua 24:18 and Psalm 78:55 likewise place the action before a people who then dwell in the land.
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Forcing an individual or group away · common
The Piel imperative in Genesis 21:10 orders the removal of a maidservant and her son from inheritance. In Judges 11:2 Jephthah is driven from his father's house, while Exodus 10:11 portrays Pharaoh's removal of those before him.
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Being divorced · occasional
The Qal passive participle marks a woman described as divorced in the marriage regulations of Leviticus 21:7 and Leviticus 21:14. Ezekiel 44:22 similarly contrasts a widow with a divorced woman in rules for priestly marriage.
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Waters driven or cast about · rare
In Amos 8:8 the land rises and is driven out before subsiding like the Nile. Isaiah 57:20 compares the wicked to a tossing sea whose waters cast up mire and mud; Jonah 2:5 uses a Niphal perfect amid waters surrounding the speaker.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the expulsion passages, the APB commonly uses “drive out” or “drove out,” and in passive contexts uses “driven out” or “divorced.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses' overall movement or removal without fixing an English equivalent in every verse.