Word

קָמַל

qâmal · H7060 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to wilt, to wither away

    Process by which plants dry up and die for lack of water; usually associated with grief, hardship, and punishment from God

    Examples

    Isaiah 19:6 The canals will emit a stench, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up; The reeds and rushes will rot away.

    Isaiah 33:9 The land mourns and wastes away, Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a desert plain, And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage.

How it’s used In 1 role

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Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 3 groups

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 1 word
נָשַׁת nâshath · H5405 · to become dry, to dry up, to be parched
Both words denote processes of failing, withering and drying, in a shared sense of diminishment or decay: "fail" and "wither" describe closely related physical or material decline.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Dry002001001021
The word means to wither or dry up, directly illustrated by the streams of Egypt thinning out and drying up (Isaiah 19:6) and Lebanon withering while Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage (Isaiah 33:9).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7060. qamel [קָמֵל] verb be decayed (Syriac be mouldy, decay); — Qal Perfect3masculine…
H7060. qamel
[קָמֵל] verb be decayed (Syriac be mouldy, decay); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular קָמַ֑ל Isa 33:9 Lebanon mouldereth; 3 plural קָמַ֑לוּ Isa 19:6 (of וָסוּף קָנֶה).

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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