TO TEAR, rend — what a predator does to a carcass. The noun terefah is the torn animal that a shepherd had to account for (Genesis 31:39; Exodus 22:13) and that Israelites were forbidden to eat (Exodus 22:31), and Jacob's own sons use the verb when they present the bloodied coat: 'a wild beast has TORN him' (Genesis 37:33). ⚠ Amos gives it to a temper: 'his anger TORE without ceasing' (1:11), the animal register of the book's opening roar handed to a man's grudge. Edom's rage is described as a beast eating. → first discussed at Amos 1:11