קָרַץ 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 from it)
Translated in the KJV as form, move, wink.
a primitive root; 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 from it).
qârats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
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 ›