To rot
מָקַקStrong’s H4743maqaq (ma-qaq)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maqaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “rot away”, “fester” and “waste away”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”
Meaning
- To decay, pine away, rot, fester(Niphal) · (Hiphil) to cause to rot
How it's translated
- they will rot away 2
- they fester 1
- and they will rot away 1
- and they will waste away 1
- and you will waste away 1
- wasting away 1
- he will cause to rot 1
- they will rot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Leviticus 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Zechariah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
- Isaiah 34:4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
- Ezekiel 4:17That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 24:23And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
- Ezekiel 33:10Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
Hebrew dictionary
מָקַק maqaq · to rot
1) to decay, pine away, rot, fester 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to fester (of wounds) 1a2) to rot, rot away 1a3) to moulder away 1a4) to pine away 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to rot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROT, verb intransitive
All definitions and other forms of “rot”
ROT, verb transitive
To make putrid; to cause to be decomposed by the natural operation of air and heat; to bring to corruption.
ROT, noun
- A fatal distemper incident to sheep, usually supposed to be owing to wet seasons and moist pastures.
- Putrefaction; putrid decay.
- Dry rot in timber, the decay of the wood without the access of water.
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.