Decrepit
יָשֵׁשׁStrong’s H3486yashesh (ya-shesh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yashesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “decrepit”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.”
Meaning
- Aged, decrepit, feeble
How it's translated
- and decrepit 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יָשֵׁשׁ yashesh · decrepit
aged, decrepit, feeble
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “decrepit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DECREPIT, adjective
[Latin to break.]
Broken down with age; wasted or worn by the infirmities of old age; being in the last stage of decay; weakened by age.
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.