qa.rats describes a wink or signaling gesture in harmful or hostile conduct, with a Pual form in a formation-from-clay clause.

The attested use is chiefly a wink or visible signaling gesture: the Qal forms occur with injury, perversities, finger-signaling, and hostile enemies. A Pual perfect form occurs in Job 33:6 within a statement about being formed from clay, where the translation does not isolate the term's contribution.

1. Winking or signaling in harmful conduct · dominant

   The Qal active participles describe a person who gestures: in Proverbs 10:10 the APB renders the clause "One who winks an eye causes injury," and in Proverbs 6:13 it places the gesture beside rubbing with the foot and signaling with fingers. In Proverbs 16:30 the APB renders "who winks his lips" in a clause about devising perversities and finishing harm; Psalm 35:19 uses the Qal imperfect plural in the request that hostile enemies not "wink the eye."

   Proverbs 10:10Proverbs 16:30Proverbs 6:13Psalm 35:19
2. In a statement of formation from clay · rare

   Job 33:6 has the Pual perfect, 1st common singular, in the speaker's self-description. The APB renders the verse, "I too was formed from clay," but The specific contribution of this form cannot be isolated beyond its place in that formation clause.

   Job 33:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the Qal occurrences, the APB uses "winks" or "wink the eye" and also "winks his lips." In Job 33:6 it renders a formation-from-clay statement, but the translation does not identify which English wording corresponds to the Pual form.