H1086 בָּלָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 15 KJV occurrences
בָּלָה
bâlâh · baw-law'
Definition
to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)
KJV Renderings
consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 15)
- Genesis 18:12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- Deuteronomy 8:4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 29:5And 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.
- 1 Chronicles 17:9Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
- Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
- Isaiah 50:9Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
- Isaiah 65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.