Hebrew word

qerets

keh'-rets

קֶרֶץ

What it means

extirpation

extirpation (as if by constriction)

Where it comes from

from qârats (קָרַץ)

How the King James translates it

destruction1

Every place it appears 1

Jeremiah46:20

qerets — Hebrew word meaning “extirpation”