Lexicon rakak: to be tender, weak or soft Original Word: רָכַךPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: rakak Phonetic Spelling: (raw-kak') Short Definition: fainthearted NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto be tender, weak or soft NASB Translationfaint (1), fainthearted* (3), grow faint (1), softened (1), softer (1), tender (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ רָכַךְ] verb be tender, weak, soft (Arabic  Aramaic רְכַךְ (in derived species and derivatives),  , id.); — Qal Perfect3masculine singular רַךְ 2 Kings 22:19; 2Chronicles 34:27; 3 plural רַכּוּ Psalm 55:22; Imperfect יֵרַךְ (Ges§ 67p) Isaiah 7:4 +; — 1 be tender, weak, of heart : a. be timid, fearful, "" יַרֵא, Isaiah 7:4; Jeremiah 51:46; Deuteronomy 20:3. b. be softened, penitent, "" כָּנַע Niph`al, 2 Kings 22:19 2Chronicles 34:27. 2 be soft, of treacherous words Psalm 55:22 (with מִן compare; "" II. חָלַק). Pu`al Perfect3feminine singular רֻכְּכָה Isaiah 1:6 it has not been softened, mollified, with oil (of wound, מַכָּךְ). Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular וְאֵל הֵרַךְ לִבִּי Job 23:16 (Ges§ 67v), causative of Qal 1 a.
Strong's be fainthearted, mollify, be, make softer, be tender A primitive root; to soften (intransitively or transitively), used figuratively -- (be) faint((-hearted)), mollify, (be, make) soft(-er), be tender. |
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