2 Samuel 22:46
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
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Fade
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James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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נָבֵל
nâbêl · naw-bale'
3 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace
Strong's KJV usage: disgrace, dishounour, lightly esteem, fade (away, -ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, × surely, make vile, wither.
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Strong's first: Isaiah 64:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:12
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H5034
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
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fade
FADE, adjective Weak; slight; faint. [Not in use.]
FADE, verb intransitive
1. To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or to lose a color entirely. A green leaf fades and becomes less green or yellow. Those colors are deemed the best, which are least apt to fade
2. To wither, as a plant; to decay.
Ye shall be as an oak, whose leaf fadeth. Isaiah 1:1.
3. To lose strength gradually; to vanish.
When the memory is weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade
4. To lose luster; to grow dim.
The stars shall fade away.
5. To decay; to perish gradually.
We all do fade as a leaf. Isaiah 64:6.
An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1 Peter 1:1.
6. To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable.
The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James 1:11.
7. To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker.
8. To disappear gradually; to vanish.
FADE, verb transitive To cause to wither; to wear away; to deprive of freshness or vigor.
No winter could his laurels fade
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.
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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