To wink
קָרַץStrong’s H7169qarats (qa-rats)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qarats is the Hebrew word usually translated “was nipped off”, “let them wink” and “winking”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.”
Meaning
- To narrow, form, nip, pinch, squeeze, wink, purse(Qal) to pinch · (Pual) to be nipped or pinched off, be formed
How it's translated
- i was nipped off 1
- let them wink 1
- winking 1
- winks 1
- purses 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 35:19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
- Proverbs 6:13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
- Proverbs 10:10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 16:30He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Hebrew dictionary
קָרַץ qarats · to wink
1) to narrow, form, nip, pinch, squeeze, wink, purse 1a) (Qal) to pinch 1b) (Pual) to be nipped or pinched off, be formed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wink” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINK, verb intransitive
[G. wink and wince are radically one word.]
- To shut the eyes; to close the eyelids.
- To close and open the eyelids.
- To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids.
- To close the eyelids and exclude the light.
All definitions and other forms of “wink”
- To be dim; as a winking light.
WINK, noun
- The act of closing the eyelids.
- A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
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.