Strong's Hebrew · H1086
H1086 bâlâh
בָּלָה
baw-law'
to become old
Looking for Greek G1086 Gergesēnós? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H1086. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
bâlâh appears 16 times in Scripture, including Genesis 18:12 and Deuteronomy 8:4. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)
In the King James Version
consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 16 times in Scripture
“So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.”
“For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.”
“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”
“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.”
“Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.”
“When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.”
“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.””
“They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.”
“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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
