165 occurrences in 13 translations

'Feeble' in the Bible

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine is very grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the famine;

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

and have seen the land what it is, and the people which is dwelling on it, whether it is strong or feeble; whether it is few or many;

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.

How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.

So Delilah said to Samson, Make clear to me now what is the secret of your great strength, and how you may be put in bands and made feeble.

And Samson said to her, If seven new bow-cords which have never been made dry are knotted round me, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

And he said to her, If they only put round me new thick cords which have never been used, then I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have made sport of me with false words; now say truly, how may you be put in bands? And he said to her, If you get the seven twists of my hair worked into the cloth you are making and fixed with the pin, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.

And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him.

The bows of the warriors are broken,but the feeble are clothed with strength.

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.

That day they overcame the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were feeble from need of food.

And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart become feeble because of him; I, your servant, will go out and have a fight with this Philistine.

Now there was a long war between Saul's people and David's people; and David became stronger and stronger, but those on Saul's side became more and more feeble.

And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.

And that day David said, Whoever makes an attack on the Jebusites, let him go up by the water-pipe, and put to death all the blind and feeble-footed who are hated by David. And this is why they say, The blind and feeble-footed may not come into the house.

And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:

So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. Now the king was very old and weak, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending the king.

And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

And it cometh to pass, the people of the land are making the hands of the people of Judah feeble, and troubling them in building,

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

And Judah saith, 'The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish is abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.'

for all of them are making us afraid, saying, 'Their hands are too feeble for the work, and it is not done;' and now, strengthen Thou my hands.

Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands.

Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah.

A Prayer of the afflicted when he is feeble, and before Jehovah poureth out his plaint. O Jehovah, hear my prayer, yea, my cry to Thee cometh.

He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

Hungry -- yea -- thirsty, Their soul in them becometh feeble,

And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.

When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way in which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

All things are wearisome and all words are frail;Man cannot express it.The eye is not satisfied with seeing,Nor is the ear filled with hearing.

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

Why should you be stricken and punished again [since no change results from it]?You [only] continue to rebel.The whole head is sickAnd the whole heart is faint and sick.

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.

And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,

They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.

The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.

Give ear to me, you feeble-hearted, who have no faith in my righteousness:

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.

For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made.

And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].[Is not such a God to be feared?]

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.

And the heads say unto the king, 'Let, we pray thee, this man be put to death, because that he is making feeble the hands of the men of war, who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them according to these words, for this man is not seeking for the peace of this people, but for its evil.'

“Because of the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of the war-horses [of the Babylonian king],The rattling of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,The fathers have not looked and turned back for their children,So weak are their hands [with terror]

Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.

From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

To their mothers they say, 'Where are corn and wine?' In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.

Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ποιμαίνω 
Poimaino 
Usage: 8

ψωμίζω 
Psomizo 
Usage: 2

אמל 
'amal 
Usage: 16

אמלל 
'amelal 
Usage: 1

בּער 
Ba`ar 
burn , ... away , kindle , brutish , eaten , set , burn up , eat up , feed , heated , took , wasted
Usage: 94

חשׁל 
Chashal 
Usage: 1

טעם 
T@`am (Aramaic) 
make to eat , feed
Usage: 3

טרף 
Taraph 
Usage: 25

כּבּיר 
Kabbiyr 
Usage: 10

כּוּל 
Kuwl 
Usage: 38

כּרע 
Kara` 
Usage: 36

כּשׁל 
Kashal 
Usage: 62

לעט 
La`at 
Usage: 1

מוּשׁ 
Muwsh 
Usage: 3

מרגּלה 
Marg@lah 
Usage: 5

מרעה 
Mir`eh 
Usage: 13

משׁשׁ 
Mashash 
Usage: 9

מתק 
Mathaq 
Usage: 1

עטף 
`ataph 
Usage: 16

עצם עצוּם 
`atsuwm 
Usage: 31

פּוּג 
Puwg 
Usage: 4

פּעמה פּעם 
Pa`am 
Usage: 118

קרסל 
Qarcol 
Usage: 2

רגל 
R@gal (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

רגל 
Regel 
Usage: 247

רמס 
Ramac 
Usage: 19

רעה 
Ra`ah 
Usage: 171

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

רפיון 
Riphyown 
Usage: 1

ἀπαλγέω 
Apalgeo 
Usage: 1

ἀσθενής 
Asthenes 
Usage: 19

βόσκω 
Bosko 
Usage: 6

ὀλιγόψυχος 
Oligopsuchos 
Usage: 1

παραλύω 
Paraluo 
sick of the palsy , taken with palsy , feeble
Usage: 5

πάσχω πάθω πένθω 
Pascho 
Usage: 32

πατέω 
Pateo 
Usage: 3

ποτίζω 
Potizo 
Usage: 9

συμπαθέω 
Sumpatheo 
have compassion , be touched with a feeling of
Usage: 2

τρέφω 
Trepho 
feed , nourish , bring up
Usage: 5

χορτάζω 
Chortazo 
fill , be full , satisfy , feed
Usage: 10

ψηλαφάω 
Pselaphao 
Usage: 3

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