13 occurrences

'Withers' in the Bible

Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but [she who has] many sons withers away.

Verse ConceptsHiringSeven ChildrenPlenty For The Poor

While it [is] in its flower [and] is not plucked, yet it withers {before} all grass.

Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he 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 blossoms and sprouts anew; by evening it withers and dries up.

Verse ConceptsMowingChange And Growth

Let them be like grass on [the] housetops, that withers before it grows up,

Verse ConceptsGrassHousetopsGrass WitheredLike GrassGrowing

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 dries up, it withers; [the] world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,

Verse ConceptsHaughtinessTransient WorldMourning Due To Catastrophe

[The] land mourns; it languishes. Lebanon feels abashed; it withers. Sharon is like the desert, and Bashan and Carmel {are losing their leaves}.

Verse ConceptsdrynessThe Prophecy Towards LebanonMourning Due To Catastrophe

Grass withers; [the] flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people [are] grass.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeFlowersThe Holy Spirit In CreationGrass WitheredMere Men

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

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