Rottenness
רָקָבStrong’s H7538raqav (ra-qav)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raqav is the Hebrew word usually translated “like rottenness”, “rottenness of” and “rottenness”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.”
Meaning
- Rottenness, decay (always fig)
How it's translated
- and like rottenness 2
- like rottenness 1
- and rottenness of 1
- rottenness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Job 1
- Hosea 1
- Habakkuk 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
- Proverbs 14:30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
- Hosea 5:12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
- Habakkuk 3:16When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Hebrew dictionary
רָקָב raqav · rottenness
rottenness, decay (always fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rottenness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROT'TENNESS, noun
State of being decayed or putrid; cariousness; putrefaction; unsoundness.
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.