אָמַלʼâmal

be weak, languish

Pronunciation: aw-mal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H535

Meanings

Qal: how weak is thy heart! (Ezekiel 16:30)

Pu`lal: be, grow feeble, languish (Joel 1:10; Isaiah 33:9; Jeremiah 14:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 2:5 Those who were well fed are now starving, and those who were starving are now full. The childless woman now has seven children, and the woman with many children wastes away.
  • Isaiah 16:8 The farms of Heshbon are abandoned; the vineyards at Sibmah are deserted. The rulers of the nations have broken down Moab— that beautiful grapevine. Its tendrils spread north as far as the town of Jazer and trailed eastward into the wilderness. Its shoots reached so far west that they crossed over the Dead Sea.
  • Isaiah 19:8 The fishermen will lament for lack of work. Those who cast hooks into the Nile will groan, and those who use nets will lose heart.
  • Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and dries up, and the land wastes away and withers. Even the greatest people on earth waste away.
  • Isaiah 24:7 The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn.
  • Isaiah 33:9 The land of Israel wilts in mourning. Lebanon withers with shame. The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness. Bashan and Carmel have been plundered.
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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).