Lexicon qerats: a piece Original Word: קַרְצֵיPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: qerats Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ats') Short Definition: charges NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin(Aramaic) corresponding to qeretsDefinitiona piece NASB Translationcharges (1), maliciously accused* (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ קְרַץ] noun [masculine] piece ( ᵑ7; see Biblical Hebrew קרץ); — plural suffix קַרְצ֫וֺהִי Daniel 6:25, צֵיהוֺן- Daniel 3:8, both in phrase ׳אֲכַ֫לוּ ק, i.e. accuse maliciously (so ᵑ7 Syriac PS 3756 (compare Old Aramaic ׳אמר כרצי פ Lzb 299 SAC 66 Cooke 205f.; כרץ also Mandean), probably borrowed from Assyrian karƒe akâlu, malign, slander (often; also Tel Amarna); compare also u‡tarrizu Hamm Law 161; further Arabic  id., and kindred phrase; Ethiopic  Di 489). Strong's accuse (Aramaic) corresponding to qerets in the sense of a bit (to "eat the morsels of" any one, i.e. Chew him up (figuratively) by slander) -- + accuse. see HEBREW qerets |
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