אֲמֵלָל
ʼămêlâl · H537 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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feeble, miserable
State of being, or being taken as, unable to function as can be expected
ExamplesNehemiah 4:2 And he spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy people of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore the temple for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in a day? Can they revive the stones from the heaps of rubble, even the burned ones?”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 6 words
- יָגֵעַ yâgêaʻ · H3023 · weary
- Both words describe states of physical weakness or exhaustion and could substitute in suitable contexts.
- עָיֵף ʻâyêph · H5889 · weary, faint, famished
- Both words denote states of physical weakness or exhaustion.
- חָדֵל châdêl · H2310 · frail, fleeting, someone who desists
- Both terms describe physical or moral weakness or frailty — "frail" and "feeble" — near-synonyms describing a lack of strength or vigor.
- כָּלֶה kâleh · H3616 · weak, dim
- Both terms share overlapping semantic territory in the sense of weakness or insufficiency — "fail" and "feeble."
- רָפֶה râpheh · H7504 · weak, discouraged
- Both words denote physical or general weakness and feebleness and can substitute for each other in contexts of weakness.
- רַךְ rak · H7390 · timid, soft, delicate
- אֲמֵלָל (ʼămêlâl, H537) (“feeble”) and רַךְ (rak, H7390) (“faint, soft, tender, weak”) genuinely overlap in the sense of physical or emotional weakness, though רַךְ (rak, H7390)'s gloss spans a much broader range while אֲמֵלָל (ʼămêlâl, H537) is narrowly “feeble.”
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Weak002001001069
- אֲמֵלָל describes a feeble condition, listed among the wall-builders' own words of weakness in Nehemiah's account.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H537. amelal אֻמְלַל adjective id. (Ewib. Sta§ 230); ׳א אָ֫נִי Psa 6:3 (|| עֲצָמָ֑י…
אֻמְלַל adjective id. (Ewib. Sta§ 230); ׳א אָ֫נִי Psa 6:3 (|| עֲצָמָ֑י נִבְהֲלוּ).
I. אמם (perhaps be wide, roomy, Assyrian [am¹mu whence ummu, womb, mother = אֵם compare DlPr 109; but אֵם n.prim. according to Thes Sta§ 189 b LagBN 22).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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