Feebleness
רִפְיוֹןStrong’s H7510riphyon (riph-yon)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Riphyon is the Hebrew word usually translated “from slackness of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;”
Meaning
- Sinking
How it's translated
- from slackness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רִפְיוֹן riphyon · feebleness
sinking
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “feebleness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FEE'BLENESS, noun
- Weakness of body or mind, from any cause; imbecility; infirmity; want of strength, physical or intellectual; as feebleness of the body or limbs; feebleness of the mind or understanding.
- Want of fullness or loudness; as feebleness of voice.
- Want of vigor or force; as feebleness of exertion, or of operation.
- Defect of brightness; as feebleness of light or color.
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.