laa · grow weary

What it means

laa (לָאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow weary”.

Become exhausted without achieving something; weary someone.

How to say it

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

1. To grow weary of something or have had enough of it.
2. To wear out someone else, to exhaust his patience.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• weary ×6
• I am weary ×4
• you are weary ×2
• have I wearied you ×1
• he has wearied me ×1
• it has wearied ×1
• they have wearied you ×1
• they wore themselves out ×1
• wearies himself ×1
• will loathe ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 19:11

  And the men who were at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, from small to great, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the entrance.

• Exodus 7:18

  The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile.”’”

• Job 4:2

  “If one ventures a word with you, will you be weary? But to hold back words, who is able?

• Job 4:5

  But now it comes to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

• Job 16:7

  But now he has wearied me; you have devastated all my community.

• Psalms 68:9

  A generous rain you poured out, Elohim; your inheritance, when it was weary, you made it firm.

• Proverbs 26:15

  The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too weary to bring it back to his mouth.

• Isaiah 1:14

  Your new moons and your appointed times my soul hates; they have become a load on me, I am weary of bearing them.

• Isaiah 7:13

  And he said, “Hear, please, house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my Elohim also?

• Isaiah 16:12

  And it will happen, when he appears, when Moab wearies himself on the high place and comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not be able.

• Isaiah 47:13

  You are weary with the great number of your counsels; let them stand up now and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who make known at the new moons what will come upon you.

• Jeremiah 6:11

  But I am full of the fury of YHWH; I am weary of holding in. “Pour out on the child in the street, and on the gathering of young men together; for both husband with wife will be taken, the old with the one full of days.

• Jeremiah 9:5

  And each deceives his neighbor, and truth they do not speak; they have taught their tongue to speak falsehood; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

• Jeremiah 12:5

  If with men on foot you have run and they have wearied you, how will you compete with the horses? And in a land of peace you feel secure, but how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

• Jeremiah 15:6

  You have abandoned me, declares YHWH; backward you go; so I stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you; I am weary of relenting.

• Jeremiah 20:9

  And I said, “I will not remember him or speak any more in his name.” But there was in my heart as it were a fire burning, shut up in my bones, and I am weary of holding it in, and I cannot.

• Ezekiel 24:12

  With toils it has wearied; and its great rust does not go out of it; into the fire with its rust!

• Micah 6:3

  “My people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Testify against me!

And 1 more times.