H1086 בָּלָה
bâlâh — to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)
KJV: consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.
Occurs 16 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [בָּלָה] vb. become old and worn out
- Qal wear out
- Pi. caus. of Qal.
- a wear out (trans.)
- b wear out by use, use to the full, enjoy
Where it occurs
- Genesis 18:12 — Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
- Deuteronomy 8:4 — Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 29:4 — I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown…
- Joshua 9:13 — These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become…
- Isaiah 50:9 — Behold, the Lord GOD will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The…
- Isaiah 51:6 — Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the…
- Isaiah 65:22 — They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like…
- Psalms 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 49:15 — They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in…
- Psalms 102:27 — They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a…