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title: קְרַץ — piece · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: קְרַץ (lemma:קְרַץ), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 2 times: piece. BDB 1906: piece. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְרַץ

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«קְרַץ» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **piece** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:קְרַץ · **BDB:** קְרַץ

### Glosses

pieces (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

piece [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e5/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

piece [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e5/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] piece (𝔗; v. BH קרץ);—pl. sf. קַרְצ֫וֹהִי Dn 6:25, -צֵיהוֹן 3:8, both in phr. אֲכַ֫לוּ ק׳, i.e. accuse maliciously (so 𝔗 Syriac PS 3756 (cf. Old Aramaic אמר כרצי פ׳ Lzb 299 SAC 66 Cooke 205 f.; כרץ also Mand.), prob. borrowed from Assyrian karṣe akâlu, malign, slander (often; also TelAm.); cf. also uḳtarrizu Ḫamm Law 161; further Arabic أَكَلَ لَحْمَهُ id., and kindred phr.; Ethiopic በሊዐ: ሥጋ: Di 489).

### Jastrow 1903

קְרַץ I: to bite, pinch, sting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e5/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to bite, pinch, sting. Erub. 65ᵃ אי קְרַצְתָּן כינה וכ׳ I could not study, if a vermin were to bite me.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְרַץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e8_5b7_5e5/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 3:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.8/)

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כָּל־קֳבֵ֤ל דְּנָה֙ בֵּהּ־זִמְנָ֔א קְרִ֖בוּ גֻּבְרִ֣ין כַּשְׂדָּאִ֑ין וַאֲכַ֥לוּ קַרְצֵיה֖וֹן דִּ֥י יְהוּדָיֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* as to because this at it the time they.approached men Chaldean and they.ate pieces their (diy).of the Jews

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

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[Daniel 6:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.25/)

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וַאֲמַ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א וְהַיְתִ֞יו גֻּבְרַיָּ֤א אִלֵּךְ֙ דִּֽי־אֲכַ֤לוּ קַרְצ֙וֹהִי֙ דִּ֣י דָֽנִיֵּ֔אל וּלְגֹ֤ב אַרְיָוָתָא֙ רְמ֔וֹ אִנּ֖וּן בְּנֵיה֣וֹן וּנְשֵׁיה֑וֹן וְלָֽא־מְט֞וֹ לְאַרְעִ֣ית גֻּבָּ֗א עַ֠ד דִּֽי־שְׁלִ֤טֽוּ בְהוֹן֙ אַרְיָ֣וָתָ֔א וְכָל־גַּרְמֵיה֖וֹן הַדִּֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the king and they.brought the men these who they.had.eaten pieces his (diy).of Daniel and to the.den of the.lions they.threw they sons their and wives their and not they.reached to the.bottom of the.den until that they.assaulted (in) them the lions and all bones their they.shattered

*JPS 1917:* And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and they had not come to the bottom of the den, when the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

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