עָרַק ʻâraq — to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole)
Translated in the KJV as fleeing, sinew.
a primitive root; to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole); also (participle) a pain.
ʻâraq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 2
הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים Job 30:3 Participle (active), masculine plural
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗י Job 30:17 Participle (active), masculine plural
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›