בָּלָהbâlâh/baw-law'/
HebrewH108615 occurrences (KJV)
to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)
KJV renders it: consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.
Where it appears(showing the first 14 of 15)
- Gen 18:12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
- Deut 8:4Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
- Deut 29:5I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
- Josh 9:13These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.”
- 1 Chr 17:9I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
- Neh 9:21“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
- Job 13:28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
- Ps 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Ps 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
- Ps 102:26They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
- Isa 50:9Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
- Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
- Isa 65:22They will not build, and another inhabit. They will not plant, and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
- Lam 3:4He has made my flesh and my skin old; he has broken my bones.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.