27 occurrences in 8 translations

'Withers' in the Bible

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.

Verse ConceptsHiringSeven ChildrenPlenty For The Poor

“While it is still green and not cut down,Yet it withers before any other plant.

He blossoms like a flower, then withers;he flees like a shadow and does not last.

Verse ConceptsFlowersdrynessLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfTime Passing

[As] water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,

Verse ConceptsRiverslakes

in the morning it sprouts and grows;by evening it withers and dries up.

Verse ConceptsMowingChange And Growth

but when the wind blows through it, it withers away and no one remembers where it was.

Verse ConceptsThings Passing Away

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,which withers before it grows up

Verse ConceptsGrassHousetopsGrass WitheredLike GrassGrowing

For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers and diesAnd like a garden that has no water.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah; rulers of nations have broken down her tendrils, they reached up to Jazer, they wandered [to the] desert; her shoots spread abroad, they crossed over [the] sea.

Verse ConceptsDestroying Vineyards

The earth mourns and withers;the world wastes away and withers;the exalted people of the earth waste away.

Verse ConceptsHaughtinessTransient WorldMourning Due To Catastrophe

The new wine mourns;the vine withers.All the carousers now groan.

Verse ConceptsdrynessShortage Of WineMourning Due To Catastrophe

The land mourns and withers;Lebanon is ashamed and decayed.Sharon is like a desert;Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Verse ConceptsdrynessThe Prophecy Towards LebanonMourning Due To Catastrophe

And all the host of heaven will wear away,And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;All their hosts will also wither awayAs a leaf withers from the vine,Or as one withers from the fig tree.

Verse ConceptsdrynessAstronomyHost Of HeavenScrollsSkyStarsVinesFigsThe Universe DestroyedNature DecayingAffecting Sun Moon And StarsLucifer

The grass withers, the flowers fadewhen the breath of the Lord blows on them;indeed, the people are grass.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeFlowersThe Holy Spirit In CreationGrass WitheredMere Men

Say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers—so that all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.

Verse ConceptsRootsUnfruitfulnessMany EnemiesPlants Growing UpEasy For People

The vine withers and the fig tree droops. The pomegranate tree, and also the palm tree, the apple tree --all the trees of the field--are dried up. Indeed, joy is dried up among the sons of men.

Verse ConceptsPalm TreesFruitFig treedrynessApplesPomegranatesHarming TreesLack Of Rejoicing

He said:The Lord roars from Zionand raises His voice from Jerusalem;the pastures of the shepherds mourn,and the summit of Carmel withers.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As OccupationsTheophanyThunderGod SpeakingMourning Due To CatastrophePasturing The FlockThunder Expressing God's Judgment

He rebukes the sea so that it dries up,and He makes all the rivers run dry.Bashan and Carmel wither;even the flower of Lebanon withers.

Verse ConceptsdrynessGod Drying Things UpFailing RiversThe Sea DividedFamine

but when the sun is risen, it is scorched by the heat, and through having no root it withers up.

Verse ConceptsThe SunInstabilityPeople WitheredScorchingRoses

but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.

Verse ConceptsThe SunPeople WitheredScorching

Another part drops upon the rock, and after growing up it withers away for want of moisture.

Verse ConceptsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedMoist ThingsGrowingPlanting SeedsFarmingSeedsSowing Seedssowing

For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.

Verse ConceptsFutilityHeatMoney, Attitudes ToPlantsStrength, HumanThe SunWeather, As God's JudgmentGrass WitheredHot WeatherScorchingNo Beauty

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