Definition

to slacken or be feeble; figuratively, to be oppressed

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H1802 (דָּלָה));

Where the KJV renders it

• bring low
• dry up
• be emptied
• be not equal
• fail
• be impoverished
• be made thin

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.