{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H1086",
  "lemma": "בָּלָה",
  "transliteration": "bâlâh",
  "definition": "to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)",
  "kjv": "consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.",
  "occurrences": 16,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:12",
      "text": "Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 8:4",
      "text": "Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 29:4",
      "text": "I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 9:13",
      "text": "These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 50:9",
      "text": "Behold, the Lord GOD will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/50?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 51:6",
      "text": "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/51?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 65:22",
      "text": "They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/65?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 32:3",
      "text": "When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/32?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 49:15",
      "text": "They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/49?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 102:27",
      "text": "They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/102?v=27"
    }
  ],
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