Lexical Summary qerats: a piece Original Word: קְרַץTransliteration: qerats Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ats') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a piece Meaning: chew him up, by slander Strong's Concordance accuse (Aramaic) corresponding to qerets in the sense of a bit (to "eat the morsels of" any one, i.e. Chew him up (figuratively) by slander) -- + accuse. see HEBREW qerets Brown-Driver-Briggs H7170. qerats [קְרַץ] noun [masculine] piece (ᵑ7; see Biblical Hebrew קרץ); — plural suffix קַרְצ֫וֺהִי Daniel 6:25, צֵיהוֺן- 3:8, both in phrase ק ׳אֲכַ֫לוּ, i.e. accuse maliciously (so ᵑ7 Syriac PS3756 (compare Old Aramaic פ כרצי ׳אמר Lzb299 SAC66 Cooke205f.; כרץ also Mandean), probably borrowed from Assyrian karƒe akâlu, malign, slander (often; also Tel Amarna); compare also u‡tarrizu HammLaw 161; further Arabic id., and kindred phrase; Ethiopic Di489). |
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