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# להה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3856

**languish** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

languish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3856/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָהָה: vb. languish, faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3856/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. languish, faint (= לָאָה) (𝔗 לְהִי, id.);— Impf. 3 fs. apoc. וַתֵּ֫לַהּ אֶרֶץ Gn 47:13 (of famine).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a madman (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.18/#tree)

כְּֽ֭מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ הַיֹּרֶ֥ה זִקִּ֗ים חִצִּ֥ים וָמָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* like a.madman \[who\] throws burning.arrows arrows and death

*JPS 1917:* As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3856.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3856/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).