Topic
Rot; Rottenness
11 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 5:21ISBE
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
- Numbers 5:22ISBE
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
- Numbers 5:27ISBE
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her…
- Job 41:27ISBE
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
- Proverbs 12:4ISBE
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
- Proverbs 14:30ISBE
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
- Isaiah 5:24ISBE
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of…
- Jeremiah 38:11ISBE
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 38:12ISBE
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
- Joel 1:17ISBE
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
- Habakkuk 3:16ISBE
When 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.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
rot, rot'-'-n-nes (verb raqebh, noun raqabh (riqqabhon, Job 41:27), with maq, "decay" (Isa 5:24), and `abhash, "shrivel" (so Joe 1:17 the Revised Version margin)): "Rottenness of the bones" (Pr 12:4; 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 Nu 5:21,22,27, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "fall away" (naphal), but a euphemistic paraphrase is in point (see the comms.). In Jer 38:11,12 the King James Version has "old rotten rags" for melach, "rag" (the Revised Version (British and American) "wornout garments," a translation that specializes too far).
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.