6244. ashesh
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ashesh: to waste away
Original Word: עָשֵׁשׁ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ashesh
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-shaysh')
Short Definition: away

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to waste away
NASB Translation
wasted away (3).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[עָשֵׁשׁ] verb waste away (compare Assyrian ašašu, moth; Arabic moth (-worm), eat (of moth; ? denominative); according to DePs 6:8 and others עָשֵׁשׁ is denominative from עָשׁ, properly be moth-eaten, but improbable); **according to JacobZMG 1901, 141; ZAW 1902, 107 be dark, compare עשׁשׁא darkness, in Christian-Palestinian Aramaic. —

Qal Perfect3feminine singular עָֽשְׁשָׁה מִכַּעַם עֵינִי Psalm 6:8 my eye is wasted from grief, = Psalm 31:10 (בְּכַעַס; + נַפְשִׁי, בִּטְנִי; 3 plural עֲצָמַי עָשֵׁ֫שׁוּ Psalm 31:11.



Strong's
be consumed

A primitive root; probably to shrink, i.e. Fail -- be consumed.

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