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Strong's #7169: qarats (pronounced kaw-rats')

a primitive root; to pinch, i.e. (partially) to bite the lips, blink the eyes (as a gesture of malice), or (fully) to squeeze off (a piece of clay in order to mould a vessel from it):--form, move, wink.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qârats

1) to narrow, form, nip, pinch, squeeze, wink, purse

1a) (Qal) to pinch

1b) (Pual) to be nipped or pinched off, be formed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Job 33:6: "in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay."
Psalms 35:19: "them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause."
Proverbs 6:13: " He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;"
Proverbs 10:10: " He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall."
Proverbs 16:30: "his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass."









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