Lexicon qerets: perhaps nipping Original Word: קֶ֫רֶץPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: qerets Phonetic Spelling: (keh'-rets) Short Definition: horsefly NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom qaratsDefinitionperhaps nipping NASB Translationhorsefly (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs 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. Strong's destruction From qarats; extirpation (as if by constriction) -- destruction. see HEBREW qarats |
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