Words the Bible translates as faint
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 21 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ekluōἐκλύωto lose strength and give way: the body collapsing from exhaustion, or the resolve going slack under pressure
- raphahרָפָהto go slack: for a grip, a hand, or strength to loosen and give way, or to make it do so, ranging from losing heart to letting go to leaving alone
- yagaיָגֵעַto wear out with hard effort: to toil to the point of weariness, to grow weary, or to wear another out
- masasמָסַסto melt away: to lose firm shape and dissolve, whether wax before fire, courage before terror, or a life dwindling to nothing
- la'ahלָאָהto be worn out: to spend one's strength or patience to the point of not being able to go on, or to wear another out that way
- mugמוּגto melt or dissolve: to lose all firmness and give way, whether solid ground turning to liquid or a person's courage draining away
- ayephעָיֵףfaint: drained of strength and ready to collapse, usually from thirst, hunger, or hard travel
- ataphעָטַףto grow faint: to weaken and give way, in body or in spirit
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- to cover: to wrap or clothe something so that it is wholly enveloped
- to turn aside: to move off to one side (uncertain)
- rakhרַךְsoft, tender: yielding rather than hard, whether in flesh, in age, in manner, or in resolve
- kahahכָּהָהto grow dim or fade: to lose brightness, sharpness, or strength without going out altogether.
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- to curb someone, to check them so that they stop what they are doing.
- kamnōκάμνωto grow weary: to be worn down by long effort until strength and resolve start to give out
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- to be sick: to be ill, worn down and laid low by disease
- ya'aphיָעֵףto grow faint: to have one's strength give out, whether from hard effort, hunger, or a long pursuit
- rakhakhרָכַךְto be or become soft: to lose firmness, so that a wound, a spoken word, or a person's courage gives way.
- ekkakeōἐκκακέωto lose heart: to let hardship or the absence of visible results wear a person's resolve down until they quit something good.
- kehehכֵּהֶהfaint: dimmed or faded, with the brightness, color, or strength nearly gone out of it.
- davehדָּוֶהailing: drained of strength, whether a body that is unwell, a woman in her monthly bleeding, or a heart giving out under grief
- alaphעָלַףto grow faint: to be overcome until strength fails and the body gives way
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- to cover something over: to overlay a surface, or to draw a covering close around a body
- davvaדַּוָּיfaintnot studied yet
- apopsuchōἀποψύχωto faintnot studied yet
- pagarפָּגַרto faintnot studied yet
- nasasנָסַסto faintnot studied yet
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