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מָקַק

makak · waste away, rot

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4743 · appears 10 times in the Bible

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What it means

makak (מָקַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “waste away, rot”.

Waste away, melt away little by little, rot.

How to say it

ma·kak

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

  1. To rot and waste away little by little, like an infected wound or something consumed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • will waste away ×6
  • are wasting away ×1
  • they fester ×1
  • waste away ×1
  • will dissolve ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Leviticus 26:39

    And those who are left of you will waste away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers with them they will waste away.

  • Psalms 38:5

    My wounds stink, they fester because of my folly.

  • Isaiah 34:4

    And all the army of the heavens will dissolve, and the heavens will be rolled up like a book, and all their army will fade as a leaf fades from the vine, and as what fades from the fig tree.

  • Ezekiel 4:17

    so that they will lack bread and water, and be appalled, one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.”

  • Ezekiel 24:23

    and your headdresses will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet; you will not lament and you will not weep, but you will waste away in your iniquities, and you will roar each to his brother.

  • Ezekiel 33:10

    And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus you have said: “Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and in them we are wasting away; and how will we live?”

  • Zechariah 14:12

    And this will be the plague with which YHWH will strike all the peoples that have waged war against Jerusalem: his flesh will waste away while he stands on his feet, and his eyes will waste away in their sockets, and his tongue will waste away in their mouth.

And 3 more times.