יֵרָקוֹןyêrâqôwn
mildew, paleness, lividnees
Pronunciation: yay-raw-kone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3420
Meanings
1. mildew (Amos 4:9; Amos 1:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28)
2. paleness, (of face) (Jeremiah 30:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:22 The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die.
- 1 Kings 8:37 “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—
- Jeremiah 30:6 Now let me ask you a question: Do men give birth to babies? Then why do they stand there, ashen-faced, hands pressed against their sides like a woman in labor?
- Amos 4:9 “I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees. But still you would not return to me,” says the Lord.
- Haggai 2:17 I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy everything you worked so hard to produce. Even so, you refused to return to me, says the Lord.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).