עָשֵׁשׁʻâshêsh/aw-shaysh'/
HebrewH62443 occurrences (KJV)
probably to shrink, i.e. fail
KJV renders it: be consumed.
Where it appears
- Ps 6:7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
- Ps 31:9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
- Ps 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.