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# קָרַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7169

**nip** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

nip [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7169/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָרַץ: vb. nip, pinch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7169/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. nip, pinch (NH קָרַץ cut dough, compress lips, קֶרֶץ piece of bread; Assyrian ḳarâṣu, nip off, gnaw, Arabic قَرَصَ pinch; Ethiopic ቀረጸ: incise; Syriac ܩܪܺܝܨܳܐ nail \[v. also Biblical Aramaic\]; cf. Frä35 f.);— Impf. 3 mpl. יִקְרְצוּ־עַיִן ψ 35:19 let them not pinch the eye, i.e. wink maliciously, so Pt. act. קֹרֵץ ע׳ Pr 10:10, ק׳ בְּעֵינוֹ 6:13; also ק׳ שְׂפָתָיו 16:30 pinching his lips (i.e. compressing, as NH, or biting, gnawing, cf. Assyrian). Pf. 1 s. מֵחֹמֶר קֹרַצְתִּי Jb 33:6 from clay I was nipped off (cf. Assyrian ṭîṭa iḳtariṣ, he nipped off clay, to form Eabani).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: I was nipped off (1); \[he is\] winking (1); \[one who\] purses (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.10/#tree)

קֹ֣רֵֽץעַ֭יִן יִתֵּ֣ן עַצָּ֑בֶת וֶאֱוִ֥יל שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם יִלָּבֵֽט׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].winks an.eye he.gives sorrow and a.fool of.lips he.will.be.ruined

*JPS 1917:* He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; and a prating fool shall fall.

[Proverbs 16:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.30/#tree)

עֹצֶ֣ה עֵ֭ינָיו לַחְשֹׁ֣ב תַּהְפֻּכ֑וֹת קֹרֵ֥ץ שְׂ֝פָתָ֗יו כִּלָּ֥ה רָעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].shuts eyes his \[is\].to devise perverse.things \[one.who\].purses lips his he.accomplishes evil

*JPS 1917:* He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things; he that biteth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7169.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7169/): 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).