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רֹק

rôq · H7536 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. spittle

    A watery liquid in the mouth, helping with chewing and swallowing; sometimes spit out in the direction of other people as an expression of disgust

    Examples

    Job 7:19 “Will You never turn Your gaze away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow my spittle?

    Job 30:10 “They loathe me and stand aloof from me, And they do not refrain from spitting in my face.

    Isaiah 50:6 I gave My back to those who strike Me, And My cheeks to those who pull out My beard; I did not hide My face from insults and spitting.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
רִיר rîyr · H7388 · slime, juice, spittle
Both refer to saliva or spittle; רִיר (rîyr, H7388) also extends to egg-white.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Liquids001002005007
Job 7:19 asks God to leave him alone "until I swallow my spittle," Job 30:10 laments that mockers "do not refrain from spitting" in his face, and Isaiah 50:6 speaks of enduring "insults and spitting," richly and directly attesting the sense of saliva.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רָקַק râqaq · H7556 · to spit · 1×רַק raq · H7535 · thin, fine, gaunt · 109×רָקִיק râqîyq · H7550 · wafer · 8×רַקָּה raqqâh · H7541 · temple, cheek · 5×רַק raq · H7534 · thin, fine, gaunt · 3×רֹקrôq · H7536
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7536. roq רֹק noun [masculine] spittle; — absolute ׳ר Isa 50:6; Job 30:10 (both of…
H7536. roq
רֹק noun [masculine] spittle; — absolute ׳ר Isa 50:6; Job 30:10 (both of contemptuous spitting); suffix רֻקִּי Job 7:19 while I swallow (בָּלַע) my spittle, i.e. for the briefest time.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Liquids3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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