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H1086בָּלָהba.lah

to become oldPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 1
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 3
  6. 1
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. 1
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 1
  19. 3
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 3
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. 1
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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15 occurrences in 14 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 18:12

    And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?'

    בְלֹתִי֙ (בְלֹתִ) ve.lo.T “am worn out”

  2. Deuteronomy 8:4

    Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

    בָֽלְתָה֙ val.Tah “it wore out”

  3. Deuteronomy 29:4

    And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

    בָל֤וּ va.Lu “they wore out”בָלְתָ֖ה val.Tah “it wore out”

  4. Joshua 9:13

    And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are rent. And these our garments and our shoes are worn by reason of the very long journey.'

    בָּל֕וּ ba.Lu “they have worn out”

  5. 1 Chronicles 17:9

    And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disquieted no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,

    לְבַלֹּת֔וֹ (בַלֹּת֔) va.lo.T “consume”

  6. Nehemiah 9:21

    Yea, forty years didst Thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

    בָל֔וּ va.Lu “they wore out”

  7. Job 13:28

    Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

    יִבְלֶ֑ה yiv.Leh “he wears out”

  8. Psalms 32:3

    When I kept silence, my bones wore away through my groaning all the day long.

    בָּל֣וּ ba.Lu “they became worn out”

  9. Psalms 49:15

    Like sheep they are appointed for the nether-world; death shall be their shepherd; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their form shall be for the nether-world to wear away, that there be no habitation for it.

    לְבַלּ֥וֹת (בַלּ֥וֹת) va.Lot “[the] consuming of”

  10. Psalms 102:27

    They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall pass away;

    יִבְל֑וּ yiv.Lu “they will wear out”

  11. Isaiah 50:9

    Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.

    יִבְל֔וּ yiv.Lu “they will wear out”

  12. Isaiah 51:6

    Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner; but My salvation shall be for ever, and My

    תִּבְלֶ֔ה tiv.Leh “it will wear out”

  13. Isaiah 65:22

    They shall not build, and another inhabit, they shall not plant, and another eat; for as the days of a tree shall be the days of My people, and Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

    יְבַלּ֥וּ ye.va.Lu “they will use to [the] full”

  14. Lamentations 3:4

    My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.

    בִּלָּ֤ה bi.Lah “he has made to waste away”