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# קֶרֶץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7171

**nipping** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

nipping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7171/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫רֶץ: n.m. nipping nipper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7171/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. dub. word, appar. nipping, concr. nipper usually interpr. (since Hi) of a nipping or stinging insect (cf. Aramaic קָרוֹצָא, Arabic قَارِصٌ biting insect); e.g. gadfly (cf. ThesAdd. 111), fig. of Nebuchadr. ק׳ מִצָּפוֹן בָּא Je 46:20 a gadfly cometh from the north; 𝔙 (Aq Symm) stimulator, i.e. קֹרֵץ; Thes al., more gen., excidium.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a gadfly (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 46:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.20/#tree)

עֶגְלָ֥ה יְפֵֽה־פִיָּ֖היְפֵֽה־פִיָּ֖ה מִצְרָ֑יִם קֶ֥רֶץ מִצָּפ֖וֹן בָּ֥א בָֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.heifer very beautiful Egypt a.gadfly from.\[the\] north \[is\].about.to.come \[is\].about.to.come

*JPS 1917:* Egypt is a very fair heifer; but the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7171.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7171/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).