64 occurrences

'Fail' in the Bible

And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.

And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

{To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.} Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
H6
אבד 
'abad 
Usage: 184

אזל 
'azal 
gone , fail , gaddest about , to and fro , spent
Usage: 6

אמן 
'aman 
Usage: 108

אפס 
'aphec 
Usage: 5

בּקק 
Baqaq 
Usage: 9

גּעל 
Ga`al 
Usage: 10

דּלל 
Dalal 
Usage: 9

חדל 
Chadal 
Usage: 58

חסר 
Chacer 
Usage: 22

חסר 
Chacer 
Usage: 18

כּהה 
Kahah 
Usage: 8

כּזב 
Kazab 
lie , liar , vain , fail
Usage: 17

כּחשׁ 
Kachash 
Usage: 23

כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 207

כּלה 
Kaleh 
Usage: 1

כּלּיון 
Killayown 
Usage: 2

כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

כּשׁל 
Kashal 
Usage: 62

נפל 
Naphal 
Usage: 434

נשׁת 
Nashath 
Usage: 3

עדר 
`adar 
Usage: 11

עזב 
`azab 
Usage: 28

עטף 
`ataph 
Usage: 16

רפה 
Raphah 
feeble , fail , weaken , go , alone , idle , stay , slack , faint , forsake , abated , cease ,
Usage: 46

שׁבת 
Shabath 
Usage: 71

שׁלוּת שׁלוּ 
Shaluw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

שׁקר 
Shaqar 
Usage: 6

תּמם 
Tamam 
Usage: 63

ἀνέκλειπτος 
Anekleiptos 
not to fail
Usage: 0

ἀποψύχω 
Apopsucho 
Usage: 0

ἐκλείπω 
Ekleipo 
Usage: 1

ἐκπίπτω 
Ekpipto 
Usage: 11

ἐπιλείπω 
Epileipo 
Usage: 1

πίπτω πέτω 
Pipto 
Usage: 56

ὑστερέω 
Hustereo 
lack , be behind , want , come short , be in want , fail , come behind , be destitute ,
Usage: 13

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