Strong’s H7538 · Hebrew
רָקָב
râqâb · raw-kawb'
Origin from רָקַב (H7537);
Meaning decay (by caries)
In the King James Version rottenness (thing).
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- 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.
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.