Fainting
עֻלְפֶּהStrong’s H5969ulpeh (ul-peh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ulpeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “wilted”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.”
Meaning
- Wilted, fainted
How it's translated
- wilted 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
עֻלְפֶּה ulpeh · fainting
wilted, fainted
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fainting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FA'INTING, participle present
tense Falling into a swoon; failing; losing strength or courage; becoming feeble or timid.
All definitions and other forms of “fainting”
FA'INTING, noun
A temporary loss of strength, color and respiration; syncope; deliquium; leipothymy; a swoon.
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.