To languish
לָהַהStrong’s H3856lahah (la-hah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lahah is the Hebrew word usually translated “it languished” and “like a madman”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to languish, faint
- To amaze, startle(Hithpalpel) madman (subst)
How it's translated
- and it languished 1
- like a madman 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לָהַה lahah · to languish
(Qal) to languish, faint
לִהְלֵהַּ lihleah · to amaze
1) to amaze, startle 1a) (Hithpalpel) madman (subst)
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- To grow dull; to be no longer active and vigorous.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.