רֹק
rok · spittle
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7536 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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rok (רֹק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spittle”.
Saliva.
How to say it
rok
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
- Spittle; spitting in the face was a way to humiliate someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- spit ×2
- spittle ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 7:19
How long will you not look away from me, nor let me go until I swallow my spittle?
- Job 30:10
They abhor me, they keep far from me, and from my face they do not hold back spit.
- Isaiah 50:6
My back I gave to those who struck, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; my face I did not hide from humiliations and spit.