rot, rot'-'-n-nes (verb raqebh, noun raqabh (riqqabhon,Job 41:27), with maq, "decay" (Isa 5:24), and `abhash, "shrivel" (soJoe 1:17the 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" inNu 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.). InJer 38:11,12the King James Version has "old rotten rags" for melach, "rag" (the Revised Version (British and American) "wornout garments," a translation that specializes too far).
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