To pluck
מְרַטStrong’s H4804merat (me-rat)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Merat is the Aramaic word usually translated “were plucked off”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.”
Meaning
- To pluck, pull off(P'il) to be plucked off
How it's translated
- they were plucked off 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
מְרַט merat · to pluck
1) to pluck, pull off 1a) (P'il) to be plucked off
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pluck” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLUCK, verb transitive
- To pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off, out or from, with a twitch.“They pluck the fatherless from the breast” Job 24:9
- To strip by plucking; as, to pluck a fowl.“They that pass by do pluck her” Psalms 80:12“He shall pluck away his crop with his feathers” Leviticus 1:16
All definitions and other forms of “pluck”
PLUCK, noun
The heart, liver and lights of an animal.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.