languish

«languish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To grow weak, tired or miserable, as when a person or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To grow weak, tired or miserable, as when a person or land suffers for a long time. tree →

examples

• And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. (Torah GEN.47.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul. (Torah DEU.28.65, JPS 1917) tree →
• Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted. (Writings PSA.6.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they bow down in black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. (Prophets JER.14.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. (Prophets ISA.19.8, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

In the corpora

• Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «languish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.