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title: קֶרֶץ — nipping · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֶרֶץ (7171), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: nipping. BDB 1906: n.m. nipping nipper. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֶרֶץ

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«קֶרֶץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **nipping** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7171 · **BDB:** קֶ֫רֶץ

### Glosses

a.gadfly (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֶרֶץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7171/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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