Lexicon laah: to be weary or impatient Original Word: לָאָהPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: laah Phonetic Spelling: (law-aw') Short Definition: weary NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto be weary or impatient NASB Translationbecome impatient (1), exhausted (1), find difficulty (1), impatient (1), parched (1), tired (2), try the patience (2), wearied (4), wearies (1), weary (5).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ לָאָה] verb be weary, impatient (compare Arabic  be slow, hesitating (Frey);  after difficulty,  with difficulty (Lane 3007); Aramaic לְאִי,  ,  ); — Qal Imperfect2masculine singular תִּלְאֶה Job 4:2; וַתֵּ֑לֶא Job 4:5; 3plural וַיִּלְאוּ Genesis 19:11; — be weary (in vain endeavour) followed by Infinitive Genesis 19:11; be weary, impatient at attempted consolation absolute Job 4:2; at calamity absolute Job 4:5 ("" בָּהַל). Niph`al Perfect נִלְאָה Proverbs 26:15 2t.; 2 feminine singular נִלְאֵית Isaiah 47:13; נִלְאֵיתִי Isaiah 1:14 3t., etc.; — followed by infinitive be weary of doing a thing, Exodus 7:18 (JE), make oneself weary in doing something Proverbs 26:15 (of sluggard's laziness), weary (i.e. strenuously exert) oneself to Jeremiah 9:4; Jeremiah 20:9; absolute of eager and hopeless prayer עלהַֿבָּמָה ׳נִל Moab, Isaiah 16:12 ("" נִרְאָה, בָּא אֶלמִֿקְדָּשׁוֺ לְהִתְמַּלֵּל); of vain consultations, (followed by בְּ) Babylon Isaiah 47:13; subject ׳י, followed by infinitive Isaiah 1:14; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 15:6, always of exhausted patience; figurative of parched soil (absolute) Psalm 68:10. Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular suffix הֶלְאָנִי Job 16:7; 3feminine singular הֶלְאָת Ezekiel 24:12 (strike out ᵐ5 Co), 1 singular suffix הֶלְאֵתִיךָ Micah 6:3; Imperfect וַיַּלְאוּךָ Jeremiah 12:5; תַּלְאוּ Isaiah 7:13; Infinitiveconstruct הַלְאוֺת Isaiah 7:13; — weary, make weary, exhaust, followed by accusative Job 16:7 (subject God); exhaust patience of, object God Isaiah 7:13; object men Isaiah 7:13; Jeremiah 12:5; Micah 6:3.
Strong's faint, grieve, loathe, be, make weary selves A primitive root; to tire; (figuratively) to be (or make) disgusted -- faint, grieve, lothe, (be, make) weary (selves). |
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