Definition

to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• consume
• enjoy long
• become (make
• wax) old
• spend
• waste

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.