Languishing
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Languish.

2. (a.) Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

3. (a.) Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.

Strong's Hebrew
1671. deabon -- faintness, languishing
... 1670, 1671. deabon. 1672 . faintness, languishing. Transliteration: deabon
Phonetic Spelling: (deh-aw-bone') Short Definition: despair. ...
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1741. devay -- illness
... languishing, sorrowful. From daveh; sickness; figuratively, loathing -- languishing,
sorrowful. see HEBREW daveh. 1740, 1741. devay. 1742 . Strong's Numbers
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535. amal -- to be weak, languish
... to be weak, languish NASB Word Usage decays (1), fade away (1), fades (1), fails
(2), languish (1), languished (1), languishes (2), languishing (1), pine away ...
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1807. Delilah -- Philistine mistress of Samson
... Delilah. From dalal; languishing -- Delilah, a Philistine woman -- Delilah. see
HEBREW dalal. 1806, 1807. Delilah. 1808 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Of the Affectionate Languishing of the Heart Wounded with Love.
... BOOK VI. OF THE EXERCISES OF HOLY LOVE IN PRAYER. CHAPTER XV. OF THE
AFFECTIONATE LANGUISHING OF THE HEART WOUNDED WITH LOVE. It ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xv of the affectionate.htm

Argument. --When the Saints were Apprehended, St. Perpetua ...
... commended to their care my son. I was languishing because I had seen them
languishing on my account. Such solicitude I suffered for ...
/.../chapter i argument when the saints were.htm

How Love is Practised in Hope.
... The divine spouse goes weeping and languishing with love, [110] because she
does not at once find the well-beloved she is searching for. ...
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Internal Exercises Weaken the Body, yet Oft Prolong Life. ...
... 18, 19, 20. Fourthly, in the exercise of immediate acts. Sec. Sec. 21, 22. Fifthly,
even in aspirations. Sec. 23. Of languishing love mentioned by Harphius. ...
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Consecration to God --Illustrated by Abraham's Circumcision
... I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me," which means just
this, that for recovery out of a horrible state of languishing and lukewarmness ...
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Death.
... There is a man upon a bed of languishing; but Oh, he dares not die, for all is not
as he would have it betwixt God and his poor soul; and many a night he lies ...
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Match-Making.
... friends; but also book match-makers, in the form of love-sick tales and poetry,
containing Eugene-Aram adventures, and scrapes of languishing girls with titled ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxiii match-making.htm

1727
... Almighty and most gracious Lord God, extend, we beseech Thee, Thy pity and compassion
toward this Thy languishing servant; teach her to place her hope and ...
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Written October 17, 1727
... Most merciful Father, accept our humblest prayers in behalf of this Thy languishing
servant; forgive the sins, the frailties, and infirmities of her life past. ...
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Written November 6, 1727
... to punish them in the present life in order to reward them in a better; take pity,
we beseech Thee, upon this Thy poor afflicted servant, languishing so long ...
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Thesaurus
Languishing (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength. 3. (a.)
Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look. ...Languishing (6 Occurrences). ...
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Love-sick (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a
love-sick maid. 2. (a.) Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. ...
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Pushing (26 Occurrences)
... Nahum 1:4 He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He
hath made dry, Languishing 'are' Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon ...
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Floods (37 Occurrences)
... Nahum 1:4 He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He
hath made dry, Languishing 'are' Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon ...
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Lantern

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Languisheth (10 Occurrences)

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Galilee (73 Occurrences)
... It seems as if all nature had gone to rest, languishing under the scorching
heat. How different it was in the days of our Lord! ...
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Turnest (12 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). Psalms 41:3 Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of
languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness. (DBY). ...
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Delilah (7 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Languishing, a Philistine woman who dwelt in the
valley of Sorek (Judges 16:4-20). She was bribed by the ...
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Pining (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pine. 2. (a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with
longing. 3. (a.) Wasting; consuming. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Resources
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Concordance
Languishing (6 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul.
(DBY JPS RSV)

Psalms 6:2
Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted.
(See RSV)

Psalms 41:3
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Jeremiah 31:25
For I have satiated the weary soul, and every languishing soul have I replenished.
(DBY RSV)

Ezekiel 16:30
How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
(See NAS)

Nahum 1:4
He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing 'are' Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon 'is' languishing.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Languishing

Related Terms

Love-sick (2 Occurrences)

Pushing (26 Occurrences)

Floods (37 Occurrences)

Lantern

Languisheth (10 Occurrences)

Galilee (73 Occurrences)

Turnest (12 Occurrences)

Delilah (7 Occurrences)

Pining (6 Occurrences)

Carmel (33 Occurrences)

Bashan (54 Occurrences)

Makest (68 Occurrences)

Faint (76 Occurrences)

Couch (55 Occurrences)

Resting-place (211 Occurrences)

Oil (281 Occurrences)

Resting (117 Occurrences)

Sickness (40 Occurrences)

Strengthen (105 Occurrences)

Support (135 Occurrences)

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