To languish
דָּאֵבStrong’s H1669daav (da-av)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Daav is the Hebrew word usually translated “it is faint”, “languish” and “it has become faint”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to become faint, languish
How it's translated
- it is faint 1
- to languish 1
- it has become faint 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 31:12Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
- Jeremiah 31:25For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּאֵב daav · to languish
(Qal) to become faint, languish
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “languish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAN'GUISH, verb intransitive
[Latin langueo, lachinisso; Gr. to flag, to lag. Latin laxo, laxus, flacceo.]
- To lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine; to be or to grow heavy.“She that hath borne seven languisheth” Jeremiah 15:9
- To wither; to fade; to lose the vegetating power.
- To grow dull; to be no longer active and vigorous.
- To pine or sink under sorrow or any continued passion; as, a woman languishes for the loss of her lover.
All definitions and other forms of “languish”
- To look with softness or tenderness, as with the head reclined and a peculiar cast of the eye.
LAN'GUISH, verb transitive
To cause to droop or pine. [Little used.]
LAN'GUISH, noun
Act of pining; also, a soft and tender look or appearance.
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.