Hebrew verb · H4743
מָקַק
maqaqmaw-kak'
to rot
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâqaq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4743is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4743
to melt; figuratively, to flow, dwindle, vanish
The King James renders it: consume away, be corrupt, dissolve, pine away.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maqaq is rendered "to rot". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
Leviticus 26:39יִמַּ֙קּוּ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's ten uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they will rot away2
- and they will rot away1
- and they will waste away1
- and you will waste away1
- he will cause to rot1
- it will rot1
- they fester1
- they will rot1
- wasting away1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הָמֵ֣ק׀1
- וְנָמַ֙קּוּ֙1
- וְנָמַ֖קּוּ1
- וּנְמַקֹּתֶם֙1
- יִמַּ֙קּוּ֙1
- יִמָּֽקּוּ׃1
- נָ֭מַקּוּ1
- נְמַקִּ֖ים1
- תִּמַּ֥ק1
- תִּמַּ֣קְנָה1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VNq3cp2Hc/VNq3cp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVNi3mp
- Hc/VNq2mp1Hc/VNq2mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HVhcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine plural1HVNi3fp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNi3fs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural1HVNrmpa
Leviticus
two uses
Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
- יִמַּ֙קּוּ֙yimakuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will rot away
- יִמָּֽקּוּ׃yimakuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will rot away
Psalms
one use
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
- נָ֭מַקּוּnamakuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they fester
Isaiah
one use
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
- וְנָמַ֙קּוּ֙venamakuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will rot away
Ezekiel
three uses
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
- וְנָמַ֖קּוּvenamakuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will waste away
Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.
- וּנְמַקֹּתֶם֙unemakotemHc/VNq2mptagged: and you will waste away
Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’
- נְמַקִּ֖יםnemakimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: wasting away
Zechariah
three uses
And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
- הָמֵ֣ק׀hamekverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: he will cause to rot
- תִּמַּ֣קְנָהtimaknahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will rot
- תִּמַּ֥קtimakverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will rot
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.