To weaken
אָמַלStrong’s H0535amal (a-mal)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amal is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has languished”, “have languished” and “it has dried out”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.”
Meaning
- To be weak, to droop, to languish, to be exhausted(Qal) pass participle (of the heart) · (Pulal)
How it's translated
- it has languished 3
- they have languished 2
- it has dried out 2
- it withers 2
- she languishes 1
- it has withered 1
- they will languish 1
- they are languishing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Jeremiah 2
- Joel 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Lamentations 1
- Ezekiel 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isaiah 19:8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
- Isaiah 24:4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- Isaiah 33:9The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
- Jeremiah 14:2Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Hebrew dictionary
אָמַל amal · to weaken
1) to be weak, to droop, to languish, to be exhausted 1a) (Qal) pass participle (of the heart) 1a1) to be weak 1a2) to droop 1b) (Pulal) 1b1) to be or grow feeble 1b2) to languish
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weaken” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEAKEN, verb transitive
- To lessen the strength of, or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of the magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.
- To reduce in strength or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.