Failing
כִּלָּיוֹןStrong’s H3631killavon (kil-la-von)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Killavon is the Hebrew word usually translated “failing of” and “annihilation”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:”
Meaning
- Completion, destruction, consumption, annihilation
- Failing, pining
How it's translated
- and failing of 1
- annihilation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כִּלָּיוֹן killavon · failing
1) completion, destruction, consumption, annihilation 2) failing, pining
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “failing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FA'ILING, participle present
tense Becoming deficient or insufficient; becoming weaker; decaying; declining; omitting; not executing or performing; miscarrying; neglecting; wanting; becoming bankrupt or insolvent.
All definitions and other forms of “failing”
FA'ILING, noun
- The act of failing; deficiency; imperfection; lapse; fault.
- The act of failing or becoming insolvent.
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.