Strong's Hebrew · H1086

בָּלָה

bâlâh · baw-law'

consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.

Definition

to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 16 times in Scripture

Job 13:28

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Deuteronomy 29:5

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

1 Chronicles 17:9

And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

Nehemiah 9:21

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

Psalms 32:3

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Joshua 9:13

These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey.”

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Genesis 18:12

So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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