Strong's #7538: raqab (pronounced raw-kawb')

from 7537; decay (by caries):--rottenness (thing).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râqâb

1) rottenness, decay (always figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H7537

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Job 13:28: "And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten."
Proverbs 12:4: "is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones."
Proverbs 14:30: "is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones."
Hosea 5:12: "as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness."
Habakkuk 3:16: "my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in"