113 occurrences in 13 translations

'Wasted' in the Bible

Hasn't he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!

Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother.

And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

If we had not wasted time, we could have come back twice by now.”

But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

‘They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plagueAnd bitter destruction;And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

For they would come up with their cattle and their tents, coming like locusts for number; both they and their camels could not be counted; so that they wasted the land as they came in.

He hath come unto Lehi -- and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him -- and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which are on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands,

Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

and Saul hath pity -- also the people -- on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that is good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted -- it they devoted.

May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!

And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.

And they said to the king, As for the man by whom we were wasted, and who made designs against us to have us completely cut off from the land of Israel,

They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

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 it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

so that he doth seek in the book of the records of thy fathers, and thou dost find in the book of the records, and dost know, that this city is a rebellious city, and causing loss to kings and provinces, and makers of sedition are in its midst from the days of old, therefore hath this city been wasted.

And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,

I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.

“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

“His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,And his bones which were not seen now stick out.

My eye has wasted away with grief;It has become old because of all my adversaries.

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;I have called upon You every day, O Lord;I have spread out my hands to You.

The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.

You'll vomit up what little you've eaten, and your compliments will have been wasted.

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

Woe to the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And to the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.

Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

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

The city of chaos is broken down;Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.

For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Yes, the Lord has this to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: "Like a farmer breaking up hard unplowed ground, you must break your rebellious will and make a new beginning; just as a farmer must clear away thorns lest the seed is wasted, you must get rid of the sin that is ruining your lives.

Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment.

And thou, wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair: thy lovers despise thee, they seek th

They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

Wherefore hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, 'As Shiloh this house shall be, and this city is wasted, without inhabitant?' and all the people are assembled unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

But from the time when we gave up burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, we have been in need of all things, and have been wasted by the sword and by need of food.

See, I am watching over them for evil and not for good: all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be wasted by the sword and by need of food till there is an end of them.

“O vines of Sibmah, I will weep for youMore than the weeping of Jazer [over its ruins and wasted vineyards].Your tendrils [of influence] stretched across the sea,Reaching [even] to the sea of Jazer.The destroyer has fallenOn your summer fruits and your [season’s] crop of grapes.

Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, that he is unable to hide himself: his seed is wasted, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

[And as for us,] yet our eyes failed,Looking in vain for help.Watching [from the towers] we watchedFor a nation that could not save.

And your bonnets are on your heads, And your shoes are on your feet, Ye do not mourn nor do ye weep, And ye have wasted away for your iniquities, And ye have howled one unto another.

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: In my making thee a city wasted, Like cities that have not been inhabited, In bringing up against thee the deep, Then covered thee have the great waters.

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it.

And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations.

And they have said: This land, that was desolated, Hath been as the garden of Eden, And the cities -- the wasted, And the desolated, and the broken down, Fenced places have remained.

Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

Therefore an uproar will arise among your people,And all your fortresses will be destroyed,As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.

And desolated have been high places of Isaac, And sanctuaries of Israel are wasted, And I have risen against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.'

For Jehovah hath brought again the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel; for the wasters have wasted them, and marred their vine-branches.

And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חרבּה 
Chorbah 
Usage: 42

רחץ 
Rachats 
Usage: 72

שׁאה 
Sha'ah 
Usage: 6

ἀπολούω 
Apolouo 
Usage: 2

בּלה 
Balah 
Usage: 15

בּלק 
Balaq 
Usage: 2

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

בּתה 
Bathah 
Usage: 1

דּוּח 
Duwach 
wash , purge , cast me out
Usage: 4

חלשׁ 
Chalash 
Usage: 4

חרב חרב 
Charab 
Usage: 40

חרב 
Chareb 
Usage: 10

חרב 
Choreb 
Usage: 16

כּבס 
Kabac 
Usage: 51

כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 207

מים 
Mayim 
Usage: 581

משׁאה משׁואה 
M@show'ah 
Usage: 3

נצה 
Natsah 
Usage: 11

סרה סירה סיר 
Ciyr 
Usage: 34

רחצה 
Rachtsah 
Usage: 2

שׁוד שׁד 
Shod 
Usage: 25

שׁדד 
Shadad 
Usage: 57

שׁאה שׁואה שׁוא 
Show' 
Usage: 13

שׁוּד 
Shuwd 
Usage: 1

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 146

שׁטף 
Shataph 
Usage: 31

שׁמּה 
Shammah 
Usage: 39

שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 89

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

תּהוּ 
Tohuw 
Usage: 20

תּולל 
Towlal 
Usage: 1

ἀπονίπτω 
Aponipto 
Usage: 1

ἀποπλύνω 
Apopluno 
Usage: 1

ἀπώλεια 
Apoleia 
Usage: 18

βαπτίζω 
Baptizo 
Usage: 65

βαπτισμός 
Baptismos 
Usage: 3

βρέχω 
Brecho 
rain , wash , rain
Usage: 4

διασκορπίζω 
Diaskorpizo 
Usage: 3

λουτρόν 
Loutron 
Usage: 2

λούω 
Louo 
Usage: 5

νίπτω 
Nipto 
Usage: 11

πλύνω 
Pluno 
Usage: 1

πορθέω 
Portheo 
Usage: 3

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