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# רֹק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7536

**spittle** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spittle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7536/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֹק²: spittle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7536/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spittle;—abs. ר׳ Is 50:6; Jb 30:10 (both of contemptuous spitting); sf. רֻקִּי 7:19 while I swallow (בָּלַע) my spittle, i.e. for the briefest time.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: spittle (3).

## In the verses

[Job 30:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.10/#tree)

תִּֽ֭עֲבוּנִי רָ֣חֲקוּ מֶ֑נִּי וּ֝מִפָּנַ֗י לֹא־חָ֥שְׂכוּ רֹֽק׃

*Word for word:* they abhor.me they.are.distant from me and from face my not they.have.withheld spittle

*JPS 1917:* They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

[Job 7:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.19/#tree)

כַּ֭מָּה לֹא־תִשְׁעֶ֣ה מִמֶּ֑נִּי לֹֽא־תַ֝רְפֵּ֗נִי עַד־בִּלְעִ֥י רֻקִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* how long? not will.you.look.away from me not will you.let.me.alone? until swallow I spittle my

*JPS 1917:* How long wilt Thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7536.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7536/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).