Rot, Rottenness
Rot, Rottenness
rot, rot’n-nes (verb , rakebh, noun rakabh (rikkabhon, Job 41:27), with , mak, decay (Isa 5:24), and , abhash, shrivel (so Joe 1:17 the Revised Version margin)): Rottenness of the bones (Pro 12:4; Pro 14:30; Hab 3:16) is ulceration (caries) of the bones, used as an example of an intensely painful disease. the King James Version, in addition, has rot in Num 5:21, Num 5:22, Num 5:27, where the Revised Version (British and American) has fall away (, naphal), but a euphemistic paraphrase is in point (see the comms.). In Jer 38:11, Jer 38:12 the King James Version has old rotten rags for , melah, rag (the Revised Version (British and American) wornout garments, a translation that specializes too far).