Weakness
מֹ֫רֶךְStrong’s H4816morekh (mo-rekh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Morekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “despair”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.”
Meaning
- Weakness
How it's translated
- despair 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מֹ֫רֶךְ morekh · weakness
weakness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weakness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEAKNESS, noun
- Want of physical strength; want of force or vigor; feebleness; as the weakness of a child; the weakness of an invalid; the weakness of a wall or bridge, or of thread or cordage.
- Want of sprightliness.
- Want of steadiness.
- Infirmity; unhealthiness; as weakness of constitution.
All definitions
- Want of moral force or effect upon the mind; as the weakness of evidence; the weakness of arguments.
- Want of judgment; feebleness of mind; foolishness.
- Defect; failing; fault; with a plural.
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.