Lexical 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. |
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