Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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Decayeth
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Hebrews 8:13
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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παλαιόω
palaióō · pal-ah-yo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to make (passively, become) worn out, or declare obsolete
Strong's KJV usage: :--decay, make (wax) old.
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Strong's first: Hebrews 8:13Strong's last: Hebrews 8:13
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chârab · khaw-rab'
1 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Strong's KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, × surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
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Strong's first: Job 14:11Strong's last: Job 14:11
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mâkak · maw-kak'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to tumble (in ruins); figuratively, to perish
Strong's KJV usage: be brought low, decay.
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Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 10:18Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:18
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In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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decay
DECA'Y, verb intransitive [Fr. dechoir, from Latin de and cado, to fall, or decedo.]
1. To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to a less perfect state, or towards destruction; to fail; to decline; to be gradually impaired. Our bodies decay in old age; a tree decays; buildings decay; fortunes decay
2. To become weaker; to fail; as, our strength decays, or hopes decay
DECA'Y, verb transitive To cause to fail; to impair; to bring to a worse state.
Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make better the fool.
DECA'Y, noun
1. Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or any species of excellence or perfection; decline to a worse or less perfect state; tendency towards dissolution or extinction; a state of depravation or diminution. Old men feel the decay of the body. We perceive the decay of the faculties in age. We lament the decay of virtue and patriotism in the state. The northern nations invaded the Roman Empire, when in a state of decay
2. Declension from prosperity; decline of fortune.
If thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay Leviticus 25:35.
3. Cause of decay
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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