קָרַץ
karats · pinch off, wink, compress
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7169 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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karats (קָרַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pinch off, wink, compress”.
To nip off a piece, to pinch; of clay, to take a portion to mold it. Also to wink the eyes or to purse the lips.
How to say it
ka·rats
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To make signs with the eyes or lips with ill intent.
- To be pinched off from a lump of clay, as a portion is pinched off to shape.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- He who winks ×1
- he winks ×1
- was cut ×1
- whoever purses ×1
- wink ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 33:6
Look, I am like you toward El; from clay I too was cut.
- Psalms 35:19
Let not my lying enemies be glad over me; nor let those who hate me without cause wink the eye.
- Proverbs 6:13
he winks with his eyes, he scrapes with his feet, he points with his fingers;
- Proverbs 10:10
He who winks the eye causes pain, and the fool of lips will be thrown down.
- Proverbs 16:30
Whoever shuts his eyes does it to devise perversities; whoever purses his lips has brought about evil.