מַק
mak · rot, stench
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4716 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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mak (מַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rot, stench”.
Rot, decay, the stench of what is rotting.
How to say it
mak
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- What rots and smells bad.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 3:24
And it will happen that instead of balsam there will be rot, and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of the work of hairdressing, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; a burn instead of beauty.
- Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of YHWH Tsevaot and spurned the saying of the Holy One of Israel.