רָקָב
rakav · rottenness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7538 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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rakav (רָקָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rottenness”.
Something decayed or worm-eaten.
How to say it
ra·kav
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 decays and falls apart.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- rot ×4
- like a rotten thing ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 13:28
And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that the moth has eaten.
- Proverbs 12:4
A woman of worth is the crown of her husband, but like rot in his bones is she who brings shame.
- Proverbs 14:30
The life of the flesh is a calm heart, but rot of the bones is envy.
- Hosea 5:12
And I will be like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.
- Habakkuk 3:16
I heard, and my inward parts trembled; at the sound my lips quivered; rot enters into my bones, and beneath me I tremble, that I may rest on the day of distress, when the one who attacks it comes up against the people.