עָשֵׁשׁ
ashesh · waste away
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6244 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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ashesh (עָשֵׁשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “waste away”.
To waste away, to wear out: to grow dim or weak, said of the eyes or the bones through grief.
How to say it
a·shesh
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To wear down little by little with grief.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- has wasted away ×2
- have wasted away ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 6:7
My eye has wasted away from grief; it has grown old because of all my adversaries.
- Psalms 31:9
Show me favor, YHWH, for I am in distress; my eye has wasted away with grief, my soul and my belly.
- Psalms 31:10
For my life is spent in sorrow and my years in groaning; my strength has faltered because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.