Decay
מַקStrong’s H4716maq
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maq is the Hebrew word usually translated “rottenness” and “like rottenness”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.”
Meaning
- Decay, rottenness
How it's translated
- rottenness 1
- like rottenness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מַק maq · decay
decay, rottenness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “decay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DECA'Y, verb intransitive
[Fr. dechoir, from Latin de and cado, to fall, or decedo.]
- To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to a less perfect state, or towards destruction; to fail; to decline; to be gradually impaired.
- To become weaker; to fail; as, our strength decays, or hopes decay
All definitions and other forms of “decay”
DECA'Y, verb transitive
To cause to fail; to impair; to bring to a worse state.
DECA'Y, noun
- Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or any species of excellence or perfection; decline to a worse or less perfect state; tendency towards dissolution or extinction; a state of depravation or diminution.
- Declension from prosperity; decline of fortune.“If thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay” Leviticus 25:35
- Cause of decay
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.