Hebrew verb · H535
אָמַל
amalaw-mal'
to weaken
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâmal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H535is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H535
to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn
The King James renders it: languish, be weak, wax feeble.
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
amal is rendered "to weaken". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Six of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 2:5The 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.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
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.
1 Samuel 2:5אֻמְלָֽלָה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it has languished3
- it has dried out2
- it withers2
- they have languished2
- and he will wither1
- hot1
- it has withered1
- she has grown feeble1
- she languishes1
- they are languishing1
- they will languish1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- אֲמֻלָה֙1
- אֻמְלַ֥ל1
- אֻמְלַ֤ל1
- אֻמְלָ֜ל1
- אֻמְלָֽל׃1
- אֻמְלְלָ֥ה1
- אֻמְלְלָה֙1
- אֻמְלְלָ֞ה1
- אֻמְלָ֑לָה1
- אֻמְלְלָה־1
- אֻמְלָֽלָה׃1
- אֻמְלְל֖וּ1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular6HVPp3fs
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVPp3cp
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVPp3ms
- Hc/VPq3ms1Hc/VPq3ms
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular1HVqsfsa
1 Samuel
one use
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.
- אֻמְלָֽלָה׃ʾumlalahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she languishes
Isaiah
six uses
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
- אֻמְלָ֜לʾumlalverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has withered
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.
- אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃ʾumlaluverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will languish
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
- אֻמְלְלָ֥הʾumlelahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has languished
- אֻמְלָ֖לוּʾumlaluverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have languished
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- אֻמְלְלָה־ʾumlelah-verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has languished
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
- אֻמְלְלָה֙ʾumlelahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has languished
Jeremiah
two uses
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
- אֻמְלְל֖וּʾumleluverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are languishing
The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.
- אֻמְלְלָ֞הʾumlelahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has grown feeble
Lamentations
one use
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
- אֻמְלָֽלוּ׃ סʾumlaluverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have languished
Ezekiel
one use
How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!
- אֲמֻלָה֙ʾamulahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: hot
Hosea
one use
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
- וְאֻמְלַל֙veumlalHc/VPq3mstagged: and he will wither
Joel
two uses
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
- אֻמְלַ֥לʾumlalverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried out
The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- אֻמְלָ֑לָהʾumlalahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has dried out
Nahum
two uses
He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
- אֻמְלַ֤לʾumlalverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it withers
- אֻמְלָֽל׃ʾumlalverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it withers
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.