Lexicon qerets: extremity, end, corner Original Word: קֶרֶץ Strong's Exhaustive Concordance destruction From qarats; extirpation (as if by constriction) -- destruction. see HEBREW qarats NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom qarats Definition perhaps nipping NASB Translation horsefly (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 ThesAdd. 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. Forms and Transliterations קֶ֥רֶץ קרץ Keretz qe·reṣ qereṣLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Jeremiah 46:20 HEB: פִיָּ֖ה מִצְרָ֑יִם קֶ֥רֶץ מִצָּפ֖וֹן בָּ֥א NAS: heifer, [But] a horsefly is coming KJV: heifer, [but] destruction cometh; INT: pretty Egypt a horsefly the north is coming |
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