Strong's Hebrew: 3856. לָהַהּ (lahah) -- to languish, faint

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Lexicon

lahah: to languish, faint

Original Word: לָהַהּ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: lahah
Phonetic Spelling: (law-hah')
Short Definition: languished

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to languish, faint
NASB Translation
languished (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[לָהָה] verb languish, faint (= לָאָה) (ᵑ7 לְהִי, id.; —

Qal Imperfect3feminine singular with apocope וַתֵּ֫לַהּ אֶרֶץ Genesis 47:13 (of famine).

[לִהְלֵהַּ]

verb quadriliteral amaze, startle (compare Syriac Palpel confudit, obstupefecit; Ethpalpel stupore percussus est; consternatio, all in Lexicons, PS¹⁸⁹⁴) —

Hithpalpel Participle מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ as substantive = madman, followed by הַיֹּרֶה זִקִים Prov Genesis 26:18 (see Now).

Strong's

faint, mad

A primitive root meaning properly, to burn, i.e. (by implication) to be rabid (figuratively, insane); also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languish -- faint, mad.