Lexical Summary balah: to become old, wear out Original Word: בָּלָהTransliteration: balah Phonetic Spelling: (baw-law') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to become old, wear out Meaning: to fail, to wear out, decay Strong's Concordance consume, enjoy long, become make, wax old, spend, waste A primitive root; to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend) -- consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1086. balah [בָּלָה] verb become old and worn out (Arabic , Aramaic בְּלֵי, , Ethiopic id.) — Qal Perfect בָּלְתָה Deuteronomy 8:4, בָּלוּ 29:4 +; Imperfect יִבְלֶה Job 13:28 etc.; Infinitive with suffix בְּלֹתִי Genesis 18:12; — wear out (intransitive), especially of garments Deuteronomy 8:4; 29:4 (twice in verse), all with מֵעַל pregnantly wear out (and fall) from upon... (hence Nehemiah 9:21), Joshua 9:13; figurative of the heavens (with simile of garment) Isaiah 50:9; Psalm 102:27 יִבְלוּ כַּבֶּגֶד, the earth Isaiah 51:6 תִּבְלֶה כַּבֶּגֶד; the bones (through suffering) Psalm 32:3; afflicted man Job 13:28 יִבְלֶה כְּרָקָב וְהוּא ("" עָשׁ אֲכָלוֺ כְּבֶגֶד); of an aged and decrepit woman Genesis 18:12 (J) בְלֹתִי אַחֲרֵי after I am worn out. Pi`el causative of Qal. a. wear out (transitive), figurative Lamentations 3:4 וְעוֺרִי בְשָׂרִי בִּלָּה, Psalm 49:15 and their form שְּׁאוֺל לְבַלּוֺת is for Sh®°ôl to consume away (others read לִבְלוֺת is for wasting away [Dr§ 204], connecting ׳שׁ with following), 1 Chronicles 17:9 לְבַלֹּתוֺ to wear it (Israel) out (altered from לְעַנּוֺתוֺ 2 Samuel 7:10), compare Daniel 7:25 Aramaic b. wear out by use, use to the full, Isaiah 65:22 and the work of their hands יְבַלּוּ they shall use to the full, enjoy, Job 21:13 they wear out their days in prosperity (Qr here יְכַלּוּ complete, which perhaps is the true reading in both passages; compare Exodus 5:13; Job 36:11). — On ַבּלּוֺתֹּי Psalm 92:11, see below בָּלַל. |
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