To rot
רָקֵבStrong’s H7537raqav (ra-qav)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raqav is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will rot”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to rot
How it's translated
- it will rot 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
רָקֵב raqav · to rot
(Qal) 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.