Lexical Summary qerets: perhaps nipping Original Word: קֶרֶץTransliteration: qerets Phonetic Spelling: (keh'-rets) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps nipping Meaning: perhaps nipping Strong's Concordance destruction From qarats; extirpation (as if by constriction) -- destruction. see HEBREW qarats Brown-Driver-Briggs H7171. qerets קֶ֫רֶץ noun masculine dubious word, apparently nipping, concrete nipper usually interpreted (since Hi) of a nipping or stinging insect (compare Aramaic קָרוֺצָא, Arabic biting insect); e.g. gadfly (compare ThesAdd. 111), figurative of Nebuchadr. ׳ק בָּא מִצָּפוֺן Jeremiah 46:20 a gadfly cometh from the north; ᵑ9 (Aq Symm) stimulator, i.e. קֹרֵץ; Thes and others, more Generally, excidium. |
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