Lexicon araq: to gnaw Original Word: עָרַקPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: araq Phonetic Spelling: (aw-rak') Short Definition: gnaw NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto gnaw NASB Translationgnaw (1), gnawing (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ עָרַק] verb gnaw (Arabic id.; Syriac Pa`el); **Syriac in Lexicons, and Pa`el; but Syriac usually flee, as ᵑ7. — Qal Participle plural הַעֹרְקִים צִיָּה Job 30:3 they who gnaw the dry (ground; figurative of scanty subsistence); suffix עֹרְקַי Job 30:17 my gnawing (pains) do not sleep.
Strong's fleeing, sinew A primitive root; to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole); also (participle) a pain -- fleeing, sinew. |
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