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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #7171 - קֶרֶץ

Transliteration

qerets

Phonetics

keh'-rets

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H7169)

Parts of Speech

Noun Masculine

TWOT

2075a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) nipping, nipper, stinger

1a) nipping or stinging insect, gadfly

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Jeremiah 1

NAS (1)

Jeremiah 1

HCS (1)

Jeremiah 1

BSB (1)

Jeremiah 1

ESV (1)

Jeremiah 1

WEB (1)

Jeremiah 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2735) y r q (קרתס QRTs) AC: Pinch CO: ? AB: ?

V) y r q (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)

N^m) y r q (קרתס QRTs) - Qerets: An unknown insect that bites, as a pinching. KJV (1): destruction - Strongs: H7171 (קֶרֶץ)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

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 Thes^{Add. 111}), figurative of Nebuchadr. מִצָּפוֺן בָּא׳ק Jeremiah 46:20 a gadfly cometh from the north; ᵑ9 (Aq Symm) stimulator, i.e. קֹרֵץ; Thes and others, more Generally, excidium.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

קֶרֶץ m., destruction, Jeremiah 46:20. See the root No. 1.

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List of Word Forms

קֶ֥רֶץ קרץ Keretz qe·reṣ qereṣ