yerakon · mildew, paleness

What it means

yerakon (יֵרָקוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mildew, paleness”.

Mildew: a disease that turns plants yellow and ruins the harvest; also the paleness of a frightened face.

How to say it

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. A disease that turns plants yellow.
2. The color of the face of someone in fear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• mildew ×5
• pale ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×1
• Haggai×1

• Deuteronomy 28:22

  YHWH will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew; and they will pursue you until you perish.

• 1 Kings 8:37

  If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper, if there are these; if his enemy besieges him in the land of his gates; any sore, any sickness;

• 2 Chronicles 6:28

  When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there are blight and mildew, locust and hopper; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; any sore and any sickness;

• Jeremiah 30:6

  Ask, please, and see whether a male gives birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his hips like a woman giving birth, and all faces have turned pale?

• Amos 4:9

  I struck you with blight and with mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the cutting locust devoured; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.

• Haggai 2:17

  I struck you with blight and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and you did not turn to me, declares YHWH.