H7171: קֶרֶץ
qerets · pronounced keh'-rets · “stinging fly”
Definition
extirpation (as if by constriction)
KJV translates it as: destruction.
Word origin: from H7169 (קָרַץ);
Extended definition
1) nipping, nipper, stinger
1a) nipping or stinging insect, gadfly
1a) nipping or stinging insect, gadfly
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7171 is translated
- a gadfly ×1
Bible verses with H7171 (qerets)
Qerets appears in 1 verse.
- Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.