King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6207
Transliteration: araq
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-rak')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to gnaw
Meaning: to gnaw, eat, a pain
Word Summary
araq: to gnaw
Original Word: עָרַקTransliteration: araq
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-rak')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to gnaw
Meaning: to gnaw, eat, a pain
Strong's Concordance
fleeing, sinew A primitive root; to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole); also (participle) a pain -- fleeing, sinew.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6207. araq
[עָרַק] verb gnaw (Arabic id.; Syriac Pa`el); **Syriac in Lexicons, and Pa`el; but Syriac usually flee, as ᵑ7. —
Qal Participle plural צִיָּה הַעֹרְקִים Job 30:3 they who gnaw the dry (ground; figurative of scanty subsistence); suffix עֹרְקַי 30:17 my gnawing (pains) do not sleep.