נָמַלnâmal
מָלַל: languish, wither, fade
Pronunciation: naw-mal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5243
Meanings
Qal: hang down, wither (Job 18:16; Job 14:2; Job 24:24)
Po'l.: it withereth (Psalms 90:6)
מָלַל: circumcise, (= מוּל)
Hithpo`el: be cut off (Psalms 58:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Job 14:2 We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
- Job 18:16 Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.
- Job 24:24 And though they are great now, in a moment they will be gone like all others, cut off like heads of grain.
- Psalms 37:2 For like grass, they soon fade away. Like spring flowers, they soon wither.
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).