1. בָּלָה
become old and worn out
The corpus record — Hebrew
בְלֹתִי֙
balah · vb
become old and worn out
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 16 · 0.52/10k
Senses
2. בָּלָה
to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)
3. בַּלְתִּי
prep
Attestations
- בְלֹתִ/י֙ Genesis 18:12 (BHS)
- בָֽלְתָה֙ Deuteronomy 8:4 (BHS)
- בָל֤וּ Deuteronomy 29:4 (BHS)
- בָלְתָ֖ה Deuteronomy 29:4 (BHS)
- בָּל֕וּ Joshua 9:13 (BHS)
- יִבְל֔וּ Isaiah 50:9 (BHS)
6 of 16 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.