For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be if not life out from the dead?
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!