Aramaic word for devil

[gregoryfl]

The Aramaic word translated as 'devil' is

אכלקרץ

It consists of 2 Hebrew words:

אכל
קרץ

The 1st word, Strongs 398, means 'to eat'. It is also Strongs 400, meaning 'food', or 'what is eaten.'

The 2nd word is Strongs 7169, 7170, and 7171, which means 'to pry.' It is used in two senses, 'to pry into something' or 'to pry something off', by grasping or pinching.

It is used in the sense of prying off a piece of clay:
Behold, I am corresponding to you before El; I myself also was nipped [pried] off from the clay.
(Job 33:6 CLV)

It is used in the sense of prying eyes:
Who winks [pries] with his eyes, who declares with his feet, Who signals with his fingers;"
(Pro 6:13 CLV)
This action is demonstrated by opening the eye or eyes wide and leaning in the direction you are prying in.

It is also used in the sense of prying lips:
He who fixes his eyes in devising duplicity, Who twitches [pries] his lips, he determines evil."
(Pro 16:30 CLV)
This action is demonstrated by pinching the lips together and pointing them in the direction you are prying in.

The Aramaic equivalent, Strongs 7170, is also used in the sense of those who negatively pry into the affairs of others, commonly translated as 'accuse.'
Wherefore, at the stated time, the masters of the Chaldeans draw near and accuse [pry] the Jews."
(Dan 3:8 CLV)

One final word to consider is Strongs 7171, used once in Scripture to refer to an insect that 'prys' into animals, particularly cattle; commonly understood to be a type of gadfly.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly [prying insect] cometh, it cometh from the north.
(Jer 46:20 Darby)

The Greek word translated 'devil' means 'to accuse'. The verb form of this word is used in the Septuagint in Dan 3:8, which tells us that the Greek word 'διαβολου' is related to the Aramaic and Hebrew root קרץ.

When we put these two words together, I see the word 'Devil' in Aramaic meaning something like 'Prying Eater.' There is much that can be gleaned from this, but I will stop here.

Ronen

[rosered]

 Wow , that was terrific bro.  Ronen!!

When we put these two words together, I see the word 'Devil' in Aramaic meaning something like 'Prying Eater.' There is much that can be gleaned from this, but I will stop here

I thought of the verse  Gal.  5

  14For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."


15But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

http://www.studylight.org/lexicons/hebrew/hwview.cgi?n=71702735) yrq (קרתס QRTs) AC: Pinch CO: ? AB: ?

V) yrq (קרתס QRTs) - I. Pinch:Also to pinch the eye (wink) or the lips. [Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Accuse:In the sense of pinching another. [Aramaic only] KJV (7): (vf: Paal, Pual) wink, move, form, accuse - Strongs: H7169 (קָרַץ), H7170 (קְרַץ)

Nm) yrq (קרתס QRTs) - Qerets: An unknown insect that bites, as a pinching. KJV (1): destruction - Strongs: H7171 (קֶרֶץ)

[WhiteWings]

The 1st word, Strongs 398, means 'to eat'. It is also Strongs 400, meaning 'food', or 'what is eaten.'

Gen 3:14 And YAHWEH Elohim said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all beasts, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Gen 2:7 And YAHWEH Elohim formed the man from the dust of the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living soul.

The serpent feeds on mankind

The 2nd word is Strongs 7169, 7170, and 7171, which means 'to pry.' It is used in two senses, 'to pry into something' or 'to pry something off', by grasping or pinching.

Also strike/bite?

3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Heel is symbolic for a walk man makes. Meaning the serpent will try to stop man from walking God's way.

:2c:

[micah7:9]

 :dsunny: Very good breakdown, very good and quite useful in understanding.

[dajomaco]

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You can't eat from any tree in the garden'?"

[dajomaco]

The 1st word, Strongs 398, means 'to eat'. It is also Strongs 400, meaning 'food', or 'what is eaten.'

Gen 3:14 And YAHWEH Elohim said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all beasts, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Gen 2:7 And YAHWEH Elohim formed the man from the dust of the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living soul.

The serpent feeds on mankind

The 2nd word is Strongs 7169, 7170, and 7171, which means 'to pry.' It is used in two senses, 'to pry into something' or 'to pry something off', by grasping or pinching.

Also strike/bite?

3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Heel is symbolic for a walk man makes. Meaning the serpent will try to stop man from walking God's way.

:2c:

Thank you :dsunny:

[micah7:9]

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You can't eat from any tree in the garden'?"

VERY VERY GOOD :thumbsup:

[Seth]

It could be seen also as the sifter sense of his desire for Peter, one who desires to pry away the food through deception and temptations.

[marie glen]

..some senses of it remind me of "predator"