לָאָהlâʼâh
be weary, impatient
Pronunciation: law-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3811
Meanings
Qal: be weary (Job 4:2; Job 4:5; Genesis 19:11)
Niph`al: be weary, make oneself weary, (i.e. strenuously exert) (Proverbs 26:15; Isaiah 47:13; Isaiah 1:14)
Hiph`il: weary, make weary, exhaust (Job 16:7; Ezekiel 24:12; Micah 6:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:11 Then they blinded all the men, young and old, who were at the door of the house, so they gave up trying to get inside.
- Exodus 7:18 The fish in it will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.’”
- Job 4:2 “Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?
- Job 4:5 But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you.
- Job 16:7 “O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.
- Psalms 68:9 You sent abundant rain, O God, to refresh the weary land.
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).