To gnaw
עָרַקStrong’s H6207araq (a-raq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Araq is the Hebrew word usually translated “gnaw” and “gnawing my”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to gnaw, chew
How it's translated
- the gnaw 1
- and gnawing my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
עָרַק araq · to gnaw
(Qal) to gnaw, chew
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gnaw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GNAW, verb transitive
naw. [ Gr. to scrape.]
- To bite off by little and little; to bite or scrape off with the fore teeth; to wear away by biting.
- To eat by biting off small portions of food with the fore teeth.
- To bite in agony or rage.“They gnawed their tongues for pain” Revelation 16:10
- To waste; to fret; to corrode.
All definitions and other forms of “gnaw”
- To pick with the teeth.
GNAW, verb intransitive
naw. To use the teeth in biting.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.