7 occurrences

'Rottenness' in the Bible

One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.

Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”

‘But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt.

thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.

Therefore I am like a moth to EphraimAnd like rottenness to the house of Judah.

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מלח 
Malach 
Usage: 2

מק 
Maq 
Usage: 2

עבשׁ 
`abash 
Usage: 1

רקב 
Raqab 
Usage: 5

רקּבון 
Riqqabown 
Usage: 1

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