# H1086 בָּלָה

בָּלָה (bâlâh), Strong’s H1086: to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend) KJV: consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.. Occurs 16 times.

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=12) — Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
- [Deuteronomy 8:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=4) — Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
- [Deuteronomy 29:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=13) — These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become…
- [Isaiah 50:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/50?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/51?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/65?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/32?v=3) — When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- [Psalms 49:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/49?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/102?v=27) — They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a…