To shrivel
עָבַשׁStrong’s H5685avash (a-vash)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Avash is the Hebrew word usually translated “have shriveled”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to shrivel, waste away
How it's translated
- they have shriveled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עָבַשׁ avash · to shrivel
(Qal) to shrivel, waste away
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shrivel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHRIVEL, verb intransitive
shriv'l. [from the root of rivel.] To comtract; to draw or be drawn into wrinkles; to shrink and form corrugations; as, a leaf shrivels in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age.
All definitions and other forms of “shrivel”
SHRIV'EL, verb transitive
To contract into wrinkles; to cause to shrink into corrugations. A scorching sun shrivels the blades of corn.
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.