Proverbs 12:4
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
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Rottenness
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Habakkuk 3:16
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.
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2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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רָקָב
râqâb · raw-kawb'
4 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
decay (by caries)
Strong's KJV usage: rottenness (thing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 12:4Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:16
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maq · mak
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a melting, i.e. putridity
Strong's KJV usage: rottenness, stink.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:24Strong's last: Isaiah 5:24
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H4716
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 Israel.
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rottenness
ROT'TENNESS, noun State of being decayed or putrid; cariousness; putrefaction; unsoundness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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