# H7169 קָרַץ

קָרַץ (qârats), Strong’s H7169: to pinch, i.e. (partially) to bite the lips, blink the eyes (as a gesture of malice), or (fully) to squeeze off (a piece of clay in order to mould a vessel… KJV: form…

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*qârats* — to pinch, i.e. (partially) to bite the lips, blink the eyes (as a gesture of malice), or (fully) to squeeze off (a piece of clay in order to mould a vessel…

KJV: form, move, wink.

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [קָרַץ] vb. nip, pinch
- Qal let them not pinch the eye, i.e. wink maliciously
- Pu. from clay I was nipped off

## Where it occurs
- [Psalms 35:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/35?v=19) — Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their…
- [Proverbs 6:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/6?v=13) — who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,
- [Proverbs 10:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/10?v=10) — One who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
- [Proverbs 16:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/16?v=30) — One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
- [Job 33:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/33?v=6) — Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.