Strong's Hebrew: 535. אָמַל (amal) -- to be weak, languish

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amal: to be weak, languish

Original Word: אָמַל
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: amal
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mal')
Short Definition: fails

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to be weak, languish
NASB Translation
decays (1), fade away (1), fades (1), fails (2), languish (1), languished (1), languishes (2), languishing (1), pine away (1), pines away (2), wither (2), withered (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[אָמַל] verb be weak, languish (compare Arabic

hope, expect).

Qal Participle passive feminine מָה אֲמֻלָה לִכָּתֵךְ how weak is thy heart! Ezekiel 16:30 (but < Co מַהלִּֿי וְלִבְרִיתֵח);

Pu`lal Perfect אֻמְלַל Joel 1:10 +; אֻמְלְלָה Isaiah 33:9 +; אֻמְלְלוּ Jeremiah 14:2 etc.; — be or grow feeble, languish; of loss of fertility (woman) 1 Samuel 2:5; Jeremiah 15:19; of fisherman whose trade fails Isaiah 19:8 "" אנה, אבל); in Genl. of inhabitants of smitten land Hosea 4:3 ("" תֶּאֱבַל הָאָרֶץ); Isaiah 24:4 compare below usually subject inanimate, personified; שַׁדְמוֺת חֶשְׁבּוֺן Isaiah 16:8; compare Nahum 1:4 (twice in verse); תֵּבֵל Isaiah 24:4 ("" נבל, אבל); אֶרֶץ Isaiah 33:9 ("" אבל); subject גֶּפֶן Isaiah 24:7 ("" אָבַל תִּירוֺשׁ; יִצְּהָר Joel 1:10 ("" שׁדד, אבל, הובישׁ; kindred subject); תְּאֵנָה Joel 1:12 ("" הַגֶּפֶן הוֺבִישָׁה); שְׁעָרִים Jeremiah 14:2 ("" אָֽבְלָה יְהוּדָה); compare Lamentations 2:8 וַיַּאֲבֶלחֵֿל וְחוֺמָה יַחְדָּו אֻמְלָ֑לוּ.

Strong's

languish, be weak, wax feeble

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