Midvash

אָזַלʼâzal

אָזַל: go

Pronunciation: aw-zal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H235

Meanings

Qal: go away, go about, be gone, exhausted, used up (1 Samuel 9:7; Deuteronomy 32:36; Job 14:11)

Pu`al: read מֵאוּזָל, see below אוּזָל below (Ezekiel 27:19)

: go, go off

Pe`al

1. go, go off, go and say, go (and) put (Daniel 2:17; Daniel 6:19; Daniel 6:20)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 32:36 “Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people, and he will change his mind about his servants, when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.
  • 1 Samuel 9:7 “But we don’t have anything to offer him,” Saul replied. “Even our food is gone, and we don’t have a thing to give him.”
  • Job 14:11 As water evaporates from a lake and a river disappears in drought,
  • Proverbs 20:14 The buyer haggles over the price, saying, “It’s worthless,” then brags about getting a bargain!
  • Jeremiah 2:36 First here, then there— you flit from one ally to another asking for help. But your new friends in Egypt will let you down, just as Assyria did before.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).