Words the Bible translates as waste away
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- masasמָסַסto melt away: to lose firm shape and dissolve, whether wax before fire, courage before terror, or a life dwindling to nothing
- amalאָמַלto lose vitality and waste away: to wither, droop, and grow feeble
- maqaqמָקַקto rot away: to decay from the inside until what was whole falls apart
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