נָשַׁת

nashat · dry up, fail

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5405 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

nashat (נָשַׁת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dry up, fail”.

To dry up; to fail, to be lacking.

How to say it

na·shat

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 run out of water or strength.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • dry up ×1
  • has failed ×1
  • parched ×1

Where it appears

  • Isaiah 19:5

    And the waters of the sea will fail, and the river will be parched and dry up.

  • Isaiah 41:17

    The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue with thirst is parched; I, YHWH, will answer them; I, the Elohim of Israel, will not abandon them.

  • Jeremiah 51:30

    The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight; they remain in the strongholds; their might has failed; they have become women; they have set on fire her dwellings; her bars are broken.