עָשֵׁשׁ
ʻâshêsh · H6244 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to become weak, to waste away
Process by which part of the human body loses strength and therefore becomes unable to function well as a result of grief
ExamplesPsalm 6:7 My eye has wasted away with grief; It has grown old because of all my enemies.
Psalm 31:9 Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress; My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body too.
Psalm 31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow And my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my guilt, And my body has wasted away.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַיִןeye, sight 2
- עֶצֶםbone 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom+ כַּעַסvexation 1
- בin/on/with+ כַּעַסvexation 1
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Weak002001001069
- עָשֵׁשׁ describes being consumed or wasting away, a diminishing of bodily strength.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6244. ashesh [עָשֵׁשׁ] verb waste away (compare Assyrian ašašu, moth; Arabic moth…
[עָשֵׁשׁ] verb waste away (compare Assyrian ašašu, moth; Arabic moth (-worm), eat (of moth; ? denominative); according to DePsa 6:8 and others עָשֵׁשׁ is denominative from עָשׁ, properly be moth-eaten, but improbable); **according to JacobZMG 1901, 141; ZAW 1902, 107 be dark, compare עשׁשׁא darkness, in Christian-Palestinian Aramaic. —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular עֵינִי מִכַּעַם עָֽשְׁשָׁה Psa 6:8 my eye is wasted from grief, = Psa 31:10 (בְּכַעַס; + בִּטְנִי נַפְשִׁי,; 3 plural עָשֵׁ֫שׁוּ עֲצָמַי Psa 31:11.
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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