קְרַץ
qᵉrats · H7170 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to accuse maliciously
Literally: to eat a piece (of someone); hence: action by which humans accuse others with malicious intent
ExamplesDaniel 3:8 For this reason at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and brought charges against the Jews.
Daniel 6:24 The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they threw them, their children, and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 1
- הֶםtheir 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דָּנִיֵּאלDaniel 1
- יְהוּדָאִיJew 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲכַלaccuse 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- κατηγορέω katēgoréō · G2723 · to accuse, to bring charges
- κατηγορέω is the standard Greek verb for formal accusation or bringing charges, matching the Aramaic קְרַץ's legal sense of accusation. This is a natural translation equivalent for legal accusation contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Daniel 3:8 recounts that “for this reason at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and brought charges against the Jews.”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7170. qerats [קְרַץ] noun [masculine] piece (ᵑ7; see Biblical Hebrew קרץ); — plural…
[קְרַץ] noun [masculine] piece (ᵑ7; see Biblical Hebrew קרץ); — plural suffix קַרְצ֫וֺהִי Dan 6:25, צֵיהוֺן- Dan 3:8, both in phrase ק ׳אֲכַ֫לוּ, i.e. accuse maliciously (so ᵑ7 Syriac PS3756 (compare Old Aramaic פ כרצי ׳אמר Lzb299 SAC66 Cooke205f.; כרץ also Mandean), probably borrowed from Assyrian karƒe akâlu, malign, slander (often; also Tel Amarna); compare also u‡tarrizu HammLaw 161; further Arabic id., and kindred phrase; Ethiopic Di489).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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