Strong's Definition
' a primitive root; to melt; figuratively, to flow, dwindle, vanish
KJV Usage: consume away, be corrupt, dissolve, pine away
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָקַק (ma.qaq) — to rot. 1) to decay, pine away, rot, fester 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to fester (of wounds) 1a2) to rot, rot away 1a3) to moulder away 1a4) to pine away 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to rot
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַק
Impact | verb nif | ≈ באשׁ
to rot, to fester = process by which wounds or parts of the human body decompose
Impact | verb hif
to cause to rot = causative action by which deities cause parts of the human body start decomposing
Non-Exist | verb nif
to waste away, to fall apart, to dissolve = process by which objects slowly lose their inner coherence and disappear from existence
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מָקַק] vb. decay, rot, fester, fig. pine away Niph. fester, of wounds
rot, rot away
moulder away
of pining away by reason of, as punishment for, iniquity
Hiph. a causing his flesh to rot
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