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# languish

«languish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To grow weak, tired or miserable, as when a person or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To grow weak, tired or miserable, as when a person or land suffers for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/languish/#m1)

### examples

- And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. (Torah GEN.47.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/languish/#x1)
- And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul. (Torah DEU.28.65, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/languish/#x2)
- Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted. (Writings PSA.6.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/languish/#x3)
- Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they bow down in black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. (Prophets JER.14.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/languish/#x4)
- The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. (Prophets ISA.19.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/languish/#x5)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.57/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «languish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/languish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.