consume, enjoy long, become make, wax old, spend, waste
A primitive root; to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend) -- consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.
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בָּלָה]
verbbecome old and worn out (Arabic
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בְּלֵי,
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QalPerfectבָּלְתָהDeuteronomy 8:4, בָּלוּDeuteronomy 29:4 +; ImperfectיִבְלֶהJob 13:28 etc.; Infinitive with suffix בְּלֹתִיGenesis 18:12; — wear out (intransitive), especially of garments Deuteronomy 8:4; Deuteronomy 29:4 (twice in verse), all with מֵעַל pregnantly wear out (and fall) from upon... (hence Nehemiah 9:21), Joshua 9:13; figurative of the heavens (with simile of garment) Isaiah 50:9; Psalm 102:27כַּבֶּגֶד יִבְלוּ, the earth Isaiah 51:6כַּבֶּגֶד תִּבְלֶה; the bones (through suffering) Psalm 32:3; afflicted man Job 13:28וְהוּא כְּרָקָב יִבְלֶה ("" כְּבֶגֶדאֲכָלוֺ עָשׁ); of an aged and decrepit woman Genesis 18:12 (J) אַחֲרֵי בְלֹתִי after I am worn out.
Pi`el causative of Qal.
a.wear out (transitive), figurative Lamentations 3:4בִּלָּה בְשָׂרִיוְעוֺרִי, Psalm 49:15 and their form לְבַלּוֺת שְּׁאוֺל is for Sh®°ôlto consume away (others read לִבְלוֺת is for wasting away [Dr§ 204], connecting ׳שׁ with following), 1 Chronicles 17:9לְבַלֹּתוֺto wear it (Israel) out (altered from לְעַנּוֺתוֺ2 Samuel 7:10), compare Daniel 7:25 Aramaic
b.wear out by use, use to the full, Isaiah 65:22 and the work of their hands יְבַלּוּ they shall use to the full, enjoy, Job 21:13 they wear out their days in prosperity (Qr here יְכַלּוּcomplete, which perhaps is the true reading in both passages; compare Exodus 5:13; Job 36:11). — On ַבּלּוֺתֹּיPsalm 92:11, see below בָּלַל.
Strong's Hebrew: 1086. בָּלָה (balah) — 17 Occurrences
Genesis 18:12
HEB:לֵאמֹ֑ר אַחֲרֵ֤י בְלֹתִי֙ הָֽיְתָה־ לִּ֣י
NAS: After I have become old, shall I have
KJV: After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure,
INT: saying After have become have have pleasure
Deuteronomy 8:4
HEB:שִׂמְלָ֨תְךָ֜ לֹ֤א בָֽלְתָה֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יךָ וְרַגְלְךָ֖
NAS: Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor
KJV: Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot
INT: your clothing nor wear and your foot
Deuteronomy 29:5
HEB:בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר לֹֽא־ בָל֤וּ שַׂלְמֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ מֵעֲלֵיכֶ֔ם
NAS: your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal
KJV: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe
INT: the wilderness have not worn your clothes on
Deuteronomy 29:5
HEB:וְנַֽעַלְךָ֥ לֹֽא־ בָלְתָ֖ה מֵעַ֥ל רַגְלֶֽךָ׃
NAS: out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.
KJV: upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
INT: and your sandal has not worn on your foot
Joshua 9:13
HEB:שַׂלְמוֹתֵ֙ינוּ֙ וּנְעָלֵ֔ינוּ בָּל֕וּ מֵרֹ֥ב הַדֶּ֖רֶךְ
NAS: and our sandals are worn out because
KJV: and our shoes are become old by reason of the very
INT: our clothes and our sandals are worn long journey
1 Chronicles 17:9
HEB:בְנֵי־ עַוְלָה֙ לְבַלֹּת֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר בָּרִאשׁוֹנָֽה׃
NAS: and the wicked will not waste them anymore
KJV: of wickedness waste them any more,
INT: shall the children of wickedness will not waste as formerly
Ezra 4:4
HEB:[וּמְבַלַהִים כ] (וּֽמְבַהֲלִ֥ים ק) אוֹתָ֖ם
INT: the people of Judah consume building
Nehemiah 9:21
HEB:שַׂלְמֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ לֹ֣א בָל֔וּ וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם לֹ֥א
NAS: Their clothes did not wear out, nor
KJV: nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet
INT: their clothes nor wear their feet nor
Job 13:28
HEB:וְ֭הוּא כְּרָקָ֣ב יִבְלֶ֑ה כְּ֝בֶ֗גֶד אֲכָ֣לוֹ
NAS:While I am decaying like a rotten thing,
KJV: And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment
INT: he A rotten I am decaying A garment eaten
Job 21:13
HEB:[יְבַלּוּ כ] (יְכַלּ֣וּ ק) בַטּ֣וֹב
NAS:They spend their days in prosperity,
INT:consume prosperity their days
Psalm 32:3
HEB:כִּֽי־ הֶ֭חֱרַשְׁתִּי בָּל֣וּ עֲצָמָ֑י בְּ֝שַׁאֲגָתִ֗י
NAS: [about my sin], my body wasted away Through my groaning
KJV: my bones waxed old through my roaring
INT: When kept wasted my body my groaning
Psalm 49:14
HEB:(וְ֭צוּרָם ק) לְבַלּ֥וֹת שְׁא֗וֹל מִזְּבֻ֥ל
NAS: shall be for Sheol to consume So that they have no
KJV: and their beauty shall consume in the grave
INT: the morning beauty to consume Sheol habitation
Psalm 102:26
HEB:וְ֭כֻלָּם כַּבֶּ֣גֶד יִבְל֑וּ כַּלְּב֖וּשׁ תַּחֲלִיפֵ֣ם
NAS: And all of them will wear out like a garment;
KJV: but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment;
INT: and all A garment will wear clothing will change
Isaiah 50:9
HEB:כֻּלָּם֙ כַּבֶּ֣גֶד יִבְל֔וּ עָ֖שׁ יֹאכְלֵֽם׃
NAS: they will all wear out like a garment;
KJV: me; who [is] he [that] shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment;
INT: will all A garment wear the moth will eat
Isaiah 51:6
HEB:וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙ כַּבֶּ֣גֶד תִּבְלֶ֔ה וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כְּמוֹ־
NAS: And the earth will wear out like a garment
KJV: and the earth shall wax old like a garment,
INT: and the earth A garment will wear inhabitants like
Isaiah 65:22
HEB:וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יְדֵיהֶ֖ם יְבַלּ֥וּ בְחִירָֽי׃
NAS: And My chosen ones will wear out the work
KJV: and mine elect shall long enjoy the work
INT: the work of their hands will wear and my chosen
Lamentations 3:4
HEB: בִּלָּ֤ה בְשָׂרִי֙ וְעוֹרִ֔י
NAS: and my skin to waste away, He has broken
KJV: and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken
INT:to waste my flesh and my skin
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