not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.
Original word: קֶ֫רֶץ
Transliteration: qerets
Definition (short): horsefly
Definition (full): perhaps nipping
Definition: perhaps nipping
NASB Translation: horsefly (1).
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From
qarats ; extirpation (as if by constriction) -- destruction.
see HEBREW qarats
KJV:
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
NASB:
"Egypt is a pretty heifer, But a horsefly is coming from the north-- it is coming!