אָמַל
a.mal
“to weaken”
Definition
to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn
a primitive root;
- to be weak, to droop, to languish, to be exhausted 1a) (Qal) pass participle (of the heart) 1a1) to be weak 1a2) to droop 1b) (Pulal) 1b1) to be or grow feeble 1b2) to languish
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
אָמַל appears 14 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The well-fed hire themselves out for food,but the starving hunger no more.The barren woman gives birth to seven,but she who has many sons pines away.
Therefore the land mourns,and all who dwell in it will waste awaywith the beasts of the field and the birds of the air;even the fish of the sea disappear.
Then the fishermen will mourn,all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament,and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
The new wine dries up, the vine withers.All the merrymakers now groan.
“Judah mournsand her gates languish.Her people wail for the land,and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
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