Strong’s H7537 · Hebrew
רָקַב
râqab · raw-kab'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to decay (as by worm-eating)
In the King James Version rot.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Proverbs 10:7The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
- Isaiah 40:20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.