Strong's #1086: balah (pronounced baw-law')

a primitive root; to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend):--consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâlâh

1) to wear out, become old

1a) (Qal) to wear out

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to wear out

1b2) to wear out by use, use up completely

1b3) to enjoy, use to the full

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

 

Genesis 18:12: "within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old"
Deuteronomy 8:4: "Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot"
Deuteronomy 29:5: "upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot."
Deuteronomy 29:5: "in the wilderness: your clothes waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not"
Joshua 9:13: "and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey."
1 Chronicles 17:9: "neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,"
Nehemiah 9:21: "so that they lacked their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not."
Job 13:28: "And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth"
Psalms 32:3: "When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring the day"
Psalms 49:14: "shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling."
Psalms 102:26: "but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:"
Isaiah 50:9: "that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up."
Isaiah 51:6: "the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die"
Isaiah 65:22: "are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands."
Lamentations 3:4: "My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones."