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title: להה — languish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: להה (3856), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: languish. BDB 1906: vb. languish, faint. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# להה

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«להה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **languish** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3856 · **BDB:** לָהָה

### Glosses

a.madman (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

languish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3856/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. languish, faint [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3856/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. languish, faint (= לָאָה) (𝔗 לְהִי, id.);— Impf. 3 fs. apoc. וַתֵּ֫לַהּ אֶרֶץ Gn 47:13 (of famine).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «להה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3856/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 26:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.18/)

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כְּֽ֭מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ הַיֹּרֶ֥ה זִקִּ֗ים חִצִּ֥ים וָמָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* like a.madman \[who\] throws burning.arrows arrows and death

*JPS 1917:* As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;

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