לָהַהּ
lahah · languish; act madly
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3856 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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lahah (לָהַהּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “languish; act madly”.
Languish, faint from exhaustion. Also act like a madman. It occurs only in these two senses and passages (Genesis 47:13; Proverbs 26:18).
How to say it
la·hah
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 lose all strength from hunger.
- To be out of one's mind; act crazy.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Like a madman ×1
- languished ×1
Where it appears
- Genesis 47:13
There was no bread in all the land, for the famine was very severe, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.
- Proverbs 26:18
Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,