Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7538
רָקָב
raqabraw-kawb'
rottenness
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râqâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7538is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7538
decay (by caries)
The King James renders it: rottenness (thing).
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
raqab is rendered "rottenness". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
Job 13:28כְּרָקָ֣ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and like rottenness1
- and like the rottenness1
- and rottenness of1
- like rottenness1
- rottenness1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וְכָרָקָ֖ב1
- וּכְרָקָ֖ב1
- וּרְקַ֖ב1
- כְּרָקָ֣ב1
- רָקָ֛ב1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Job
one use
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- כְּרָקָ֣בkerakavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like rottenness
Proverbs
two uses
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
- וּכְרָקָ֖בukherakavconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like rottenness
A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
- וּרְקַ֖בurekavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and rottenness of
Hosea
one use
So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
- וְכָרָקָ֖בvekharakavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the rottenness
Habakkuk
one use
I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
- רָקָ֛בrakavnoun · masculine singulartagged: rottenness
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.