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Strong's #2151: zalal (pronounced zaw-lal')

a primitive root (compare 2107); to shake (as in the wind), i.e. to quake; figuratively, to be loose morally, worthless or prodigal:--blow down, glutton, riotous (eater), vile.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

zâlal

1) to be worthless, be vile, be insignificant, be light

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be worthless, be insignificant

1a2) to make light of, squander, be lavish with

2) to shake, tremble, quake

1a) (Niphal) to shake, quake

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [compare H2107]



Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Deuteronomy 21:20: "he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."
Proverbs 23:20: "Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:"
Proverbs 23:21: "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
Proverbs 28:7: "is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father."
Isaiah 64:1: "the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,"
Isaiah 64:3: "which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence."
Jeremiah 15:19: "me: and if thou take forth from the vile, from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return"
Lamentations 1:8: "therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen"
Lamentations 1:11: "and consider; for I am become vile."









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