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Hebrew verb · H3811

לָאָה

laahlaw-aw'

be weary

19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: lâʼâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3811is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3811

to tire; (figuratively) to be (or make) disgusted

The King James renders it: faint, grieve, lothe, (be, make) weary (selves).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

laah is rendered "be weary". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:11And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

Genesis 19:11וַיִּלְא֖וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's nineteen uses are in Isaiah.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • I am weary2
  • and I will be weary1
  • and they became weary1
  • and they have made weary you1
  • and they will be weary1
  • and weary1
  • and you have become impatient1
  • have I made weary you1
  • he has made weary me1
  • he is weary1
  • I had wearied myself1
  • it has made weary1

and 6 more, 19 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • נִלְאֵ֖יתִי2
  • הַלְא֣וֹת1
  • הֶלְאָ֑נִי1
  • הֶלְאָ֑ת1
  • הֶלְאֵתִ֑יךָ1
  • וַיִּלְא֖וּ1
  • וַיַּלְא֔וּךָ1
  • וְ֝נִלְאָ֗ה1
  • וְנִלְא֣וּ1
  • וְנִלְאֵ֥יתִי1
  • וַתֵּ֑לֶא1
  • נִ֝לְאָ֗ה1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVNp1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNp3ms
  • Hc/Vhw3mp/Sp2ms1Hc/Vhw3mp/Sp2ms
  • Hc/VNq1cs1Hc/VNq1cs
  • Hc/VNq3cp1Hc/VNq3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular1HC/VNrfsa
  • Hc/Vqw2ms1Hc/Vqw2ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HVhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhi2mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhp1cs/Sp2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVhp3fs

Genesis

one use
  • And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

    Genesis 19:11

    • וַיִּלְא֖וּvaiyiluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they became weary

Exodus

one use
  • The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”

    Exodus 7:18

    • וְנִלְא֣וּveniluHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be weary

Job

three uses
  • “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

    Job 4:2

    • תִּלְאֶ֑הtilehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you be impatient
  • But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

    Job 4:5

    • וַתֵּ֑לֶאvatele'Hc/Vqw2mstagged: and you have become impatient
  • Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

    Job 16:7

    • הֶלְאָ֑נִיhelaniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has made weary me

Psalms

one use
  • You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.

    Psalms 68:9

    • וְ֝נִלְאָ֗הvenilahconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: and weary

Proverbs

one use
  • The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

    Proverbs 26:15

    • נִ֝לְאָ֗הnilahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is weary

Isaiah

five uses
  • I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

    Isaiah 1:14

    • נִלְאֵ֖יתִיnileitiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am weary
  • Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?

    Isaiah 7:13

    • הַלְא֣וֹתhalotverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make weary
    • תַלְא֖וּtaluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will make weary
  • When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

    Isaiah 16:12

    • נִלְאָ֥הnilahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has wearied itself
  • You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.

    Isaiah 47:13

    • נִלְאֵ֖יתnileitverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have become weary

Jeremiah

five uses
  • But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

    Jeremiah 6:11

    • נִלְאֵ֣יתִיnileitiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am weary
  • Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

    Jeremiah 9:5

    • נִלְאֽוּ׃niluverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are weary
  • “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

    Jeremiah 12:5

    • וַיַּלְא֔וּךָvaiyalukhaHc/Vhw3mp/Sp2mstagged: and they have made weary you
  • You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

    Jeremiah 15:6

    • נִלְאֵ֖יתִיnileitiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I had wearied myself
  • If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

    Jeremiah 20:9

    • וְנִלְאֵ֥יתִיvenileitiHc/VNq1cstagged: and I will be weary

Ezekiel

one use
  • It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

    Ezekiel 24:12

    • הֶלְאָ֑תhelatverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has made weary

Micah

one use
  • ‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

    Micah 6:3

    • הֶלְאֵתִ֑יךָheletikhaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have I made weary you

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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