Stinging fly
קֶ֫רֶץStrong’s H7171qerets (qe-rets)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qerets is the Hebrew word usually translated “gadfly”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”
Meaning
- Nipping, nipper, stingernipping or stinging insect, gadfly
How it's translated
- a gadfly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫רֶץ qerets · stinging fly
1) nipping, nipper, stinger 1a) nipping or stinging insect, gadfly
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.