Amal means “droop” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G535 — apartismos (“finishing”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H535 אָמַל (amal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. amal (aw-mal') v. 1. to droop 2. (by implication) to be sick, to mourn It has 14 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include mourneth, languisheth, mourn, waxed, and languish. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
amal (aw-mal') v. 1. to droop 2. (by implication) to be sick, to mourn [a primitive root] KJV: languish, be weak, wax feeble.
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to weaken
Usage: 1) to be weak, to droop, to languish, to be exhausted 1a) (Qal) pass participle (of the heart) 1a1) to be weak 1a2) to droop 1b) (Pulal) 1b1) to be or grow feeble 1b2) to languish
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render amal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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.
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H535.
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.
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H535, grouped by book.
Amal (Strong's H535) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "droop". amal (aw-mal') v. 1. to droop 2. (by implication) to be sick, to mourn
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H535 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H535 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as mourneth, languisheth, mourn, waxed, languish, and languished. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.