Strong's #7401: rakak (pronounced raw-kak')

a primitive root; to soften (intransitively or transitively), used figuratively:--(be) faint((-hearted)), mollify, (be, make) soft(-er), be tender.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râkak

1) to be tender, be soft, be weak

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be tender, be weak (of heart)

1a1a) to be timid, be fearful

1a1b) to be softened, be penitent

1a2) to be soft (of treacherous words)

1b) (Pual) to be softened

1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be weak

1d) (Niphal) tender

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Deuteronomy 20:3: "your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble,"
2 Kings 22:19: "Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest"
2 Chronicles 34:27: "Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest"
Job 23:16: "For God maketh my heart soft and the Almighty troubleth"
Psalms 55:21: "but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."
Isaiah 1:6: "been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment."
Isaiah 7:4: "fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails"
Jeremiah 51:46: "And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor"