# H1809 דָּלַל

דָּלַל (dâlal), Strong’s H1809: to slacken or be feeble; figuratively, to be oppressed KJV: bring low, dry up, be emptied, be not equal, fail, be impoverished, be made thin.. Occurs 9 times.

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*dâlal* — to slacken or be feeble; figuratively, to be oppressed

KJV: bring low, dry up, be emptied, be not equal, fail, be impoverished, be made thin.

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [דָּלַל] vb. hang, be low, languish
- Qal hang, ‘depend’
- Niph. be brought low, laid low

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 6:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=6) — Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to the LORD.
- [Isaiah 17:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/17?v=4) — “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
- [Isaiah 19:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=6) — The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
- [Isaiah 38:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/38?v=14) — I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my…
- [Psalms 79:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/79?v=8) — Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in…
- [Psalms 116:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/116?v=6) — The LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
- [Psalms 142:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/142?v=7) — Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
- [Proverbs 26:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/26?v=7) — Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- [Job 28:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/28?v=4) — He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing…