Bible word study

Qarats (Strong’s H7169): Meaning in the Bible

Qarats (קָרַץ) is the Hebrew word numbered H7169 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated form, move, wink..

• Original wordקָרַץ
• Transliterationqârats
• Pronunciationkaw-rats'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH7169
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Qarats appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Qarats (H7169) stands behind 5 English renderings in 5 verses across 3 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Proverbs (3), Job (1), Psalms (1).

How the King James Bible renders Qarats, by count

• winketh2 of 5 (40 percent)
• formed1 of 5 (20 percent)
• moving1 of 5 (20 percent)
• wink1 of 5 (20 percent)

Three places to read Qarats

• Job 33:6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
• Psalms 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
• Proverbs 10:10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Qarats in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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