Garar גָּרַר

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Garar (Hebrew גָּרַר, Strong's H1641) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to drag/chew/saw”. It occurs 6 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to drag, drag away
1a) (Qal) to drag away
1b) (Niphal) to chew the cud
1c) (Poal) sawn (participle)
1d) (Hithpoel) roaring (participle)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	cheweth (1), sawed (1), destroy (1), continuing (1), catch (1)
BSB	chew (1), trimmed (1), will sweep them away (1), they slash themselves (1), he catches them (1)

Every verse with Garar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus 11:7
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

1 Kings 7:9
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.

Proverbs 21:7
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

Jeremiah 30:23
Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

Habakkuk 1:15
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).