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Lexicon :: Strong's H535 - 'āmal

Aa
אָמַל
Transliteration
'āmal
Pronunciation
aw-mal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 114

Strong’s Definitions

אָמַל ʼâmal, aw-mal'; a primitive root; to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn:—languish, be weak, wax feeble.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H535 in the following manner: languish (14x), feeble (1x), weak (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H535 in the following manner: languish (14x), feeble (1x), weak (1x).

  1. to be weak, to droop, to languish, to be exhausted

    1. (Qal) pass participle (of the heart)

      1. to be weak

      2. to droop

    2. (Pulal)

      1. to be or grow feeble

      2. to languish

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָמַל ʼâmal, aw-mal'; a primitive root; to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn:—languish, be weak, wax feeble.
STRONGS H535: Abbreviations
† [אָמַל] verb be weak, languish (compare Arabic أَمَلَ hope, expect).
Qal Participle passive feminine מָה אֲמֻלָה לִכָּתֵךְ how weak is thy heart! Ezekiel 16:30 (but < Co מַה־לִּי וְלִבְרִיתֵח);
Pu`l. Perfect אֻמְלַל Joel 1:10 +; אֻמְלְלָה Isaiah 33:9 +; אֻמְלְלוּ Jeremiah 14:2 etc.; — be or grow feeble, languish; of loss of fertility (woman) 1 Samuel 2:5; Jeremiah 15:19; of fisherman whose trade fails Isaiah 19:8 || אנה, אבל); in Genl. of inhabitants of smitten land Hosea 4:3 (|| תֶּאֱבַל הָאָרֶץ); Isaiah 24:4 compare below usually subject inanimate, personified; שַׁדְמוֺת חֶשְׁבּוֺן Isaiah 16:8; compare Nahum 1:4 (twice in verse); תֵּבֵל Isaiah 24:4 (|| נבל, אבל); אֶרֶץ Isaiah 33:9 (|| אבל); subject גֶּפֶן Isaiah 24:7 (|| אָבַל תִּירוֺשׁ; יִצְּהָר Joel 1:10 (|| שׁדד, אבל, הובישׁ; kindred subject); תְּאֵנָה Joel 1:12 (|| הַגֶּפֶן הוֺבִישָׁה); שְׁעָרִים Jeremiah 14:2 (|| אָֽבְלָה יְהוּדָה); compare Lamentations 2:8 וַיַּאֲבֶל־חֵל וְחוֺמָה יַחְדָּו אֻמְלָ֑לוּ.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

2:5

Isaiah

16:8; 19:8; 24:4; 24:4; 24:7; 33:9; 33:9

Jeremiah

14:2; 14:2; 15:19

Lamentations

2:8

Ezekiel

16:30

Hosea

4:3

Joel

1:10; 1:10; 1:12

Nahum

1:4

H535

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H535 matches the Hebrew אָמַל ('āmal),
which occurs 16 times in 14 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 - Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:8 - The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:4 - The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:7 - The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9 - The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:2 - Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:9 - The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8 - It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:30 - How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3 - Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:10 - The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12 - The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:4 - He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.
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