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Strong's #535: 'amal (pronounced aw-mal')

a primitive root; to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn:--languish, be weak, wax feeble.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âmal

1) to be weak, to droop, to languish, to be exhausted

1a) (Qal) passive participle (of the heart)

1a1) to be weak

1a2) to droop

1b) (Pulal)

1b1) to be or grow feeble

1b2) to languish

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

1 Samuel 2:5: "seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble."
Isaiah 16:8: "For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen"
Isaiah 19:8: "nets upon the waters shall languish."
Isaiah 24:4: "mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth"
Isaiah 24:4: "the haughty people of the earth do languish."
Isaiah 24:7: "The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh."
Isaiah 33:9: "The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is"
Jeremiah 14:2: "Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem"
Jeremiah 15:9: "She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while"
Lamentations 2:8: "therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together."
Ezekiel 16:30: "How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest"
Hosea 4:3: "shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls"
Joel 1:10: "the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth."
Joel 1:12: "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,"
Nahum 1:4: "all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon"
Nahum 1:4: "and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth."









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