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Strong's #7169 - קָרַץ
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- to narrow, form, nip, pinch, squeeze, wink, purse
- (Qal) to pinch
- (Pual) to be nipped or pinched off, be formed
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2735) yrq (קרתס QRTs) AC: Pinch CO: ? AB: ?
V) yrq (קרתס QRTs) - I. Pinch:Also to pinch the eye (wink) or the lips. [Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Accuse:In the sense of pinching another. [Aramaic only] KJV (7): (vf: Paal, Pual) wink, move, form, accuse - Strongs: H7169 (קָרַץ), H7170 (קְרַץ)
Nm) yrq (קרתס QRTs) - Qerets: An unknown insect that bites, as a pinching. KJV (1): destruction - Strongs: H7171 (קֶרֶץ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
pinch; Ethiopic 
incise; Syriac 
nail [see also Biblical Aramaic]; compare Frä35f.); — Qal Imperfect 3 masculine plural יִקְרְצועַֿיִן Psalm 35:19 let them not pinch the eye, i.e. wink maliciously, so Participle active ׳קֹרֵץ צ Proverbs 10:10, בְּעֵינוֺ׳ק Proverbs 6:13; also שְׂפָתָיו׳ק Proverbs 16:30 pinching his lips (i.e. compressing, as in Late Hebrew, or biting, gnawing, compare Assyrian).
Pu`al Perfect 1 singular מֵחֹמֶר קֹרַצְתִּי Job 33:6 from clay I was nipped off (compare Assyrian ‰i‰a i‡tariƒ, he nipped off clay, to form Eabani).
קָרַץ
(1) nearly i.q. cogn. קָרַע to tear; hence to cut off, to destroy; Arab. قرض; whence קֶרֶץ destruction; and Chald. קְרַץ a piece.
(2) specially to tear with the teeth, to bite, (Arab. قرص); especially in the phrases
(a) קָרַץ שְׂפָתַיִם to bite the lips, as is done by a wicked man when devising snares, Proverbs 16:30.
(b) ק׳ עַיִן Proverbs 10:10; Psalms 35:19 and בְּעֵינַיִם Proverbs 6:13 to compress the eyes (like the lips), to wink with the eyes behind another’s back, as done by a malicious and crafty man.
Pual, to be torn off, nipped off, Job 33:6, מֵחֹמֶר קֹרַצְתִּי גַס־אָנִי “I, too, was nipped off from the clay,” an image taken from a potter, who pinches off a piece from the mass of clay, to make a vessel.
