Genesis 42:28
And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
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Failed
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Lamentations 4:17
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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נָפַל
nâphal · naw-fal'
4 times translated as this KJV form435 total Strong's occurrences
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.
Strong's first: Joshua 21:45Strong's last: 1 Kings 8:56
Open full H5307 profile →יָצָא
yâtsâʼ · yaw-tsaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form1,075 total Strong's occurrences
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Strong's KJV usage: × after, appear, × assuredly, bear out, × begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, × scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, × still, × surely, take forth (out), at any time, × to (and fro), utter.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 42:28Strong's last: Song of Solomon 5:6
Open full H3318 profile →תָּמַם
tâmam · taw-mam'
2 times translated as this KJV form64 total Strong's occurrences
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, cease, be clean (pass-) ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, × be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 47:15Strong's last: Joshua 3:16
Open full H8552 profile →אָבַד
ʼâbad · aw-bad'
1 times translated as this KJV form184 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Strong's KJV usage: break, destroy(-uction), not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, × and surely, take, be undone, × utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 142:4Strong's last: Psalms 142:4
Open full H6 profile →חָדַל
châdal · khaw-dal'
1 times translated as this KJV form58 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
Strong's KJV usage: cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
Strong's first: Job 19:14Strong's last: Job 19:14
Open full H2308 profile →כָּלָה
kâlâh · kaw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form207 total Strong's occurrences
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, × fully, × have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Lamentations 4:17Strong's last: Lamentations 4:17
Open full H3615 profile →נָשַׁת
nâshath · naw-shath'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to eliminate, i.e. (intransitively) to dry up
Strong's KJV usage: fail.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 51:30Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:30
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H3318
And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
H8552
And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
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fail
FAIL, verb intransitive [Latin fallo; Gr. whence; Eng. felony. It seems to be allied to fall, fallow, pale, and many other words.]
1. To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply; or to be entirely wanting. We say, in a dry season, the springs and streams fail or are failing, before they are entirely exhausted. We say also, the springs failed, when they entirely ceased to flow. Crops fail wholly or partially.
2. To decay; to decline; to sink; to be diminished. We say of a sick person, his strength fails daily.
3. To decline; to decay; to sink; to become weaker; as, the patient fails every hour.
4. To be extinct; to cease; to be entirely wanting; to be no longer produced.
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. Psalms 12:1.
5. To be entirely exhausted; to be wanting; to cease from supply.
Money failed in the land of Egypt. Genesis 47:16.
6. To cease; to perish; to be lost.
Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail
7. To die.
They shall all fail together. Isaiah 31:3.
8. To decay; to decline; as, the sight fails in old age.
9. To become deficient or wanting; as, the heart or the courage fails.
10. To miss; not to produce the effect. the experiment was made with care, but failed, or failed to produce the effect, or failed of the effect.
11. To be deficient in duty; to omit or neglect. the debtor failed to fulfil his promise.
12. To miss; to miscarry; to be frustrated or disappointed. The enemy attacked the fort, but failed in his design, or failed of success.
13. To be neglected; to fall short; not to be executed. the promises of a man of probity seldom fail
The soul or the spirit fails, when a person is discouraged. The eyes fail when the desires and expectations are long delayed, and the person is disappointed.
14. To become insolvent or bankrupt. When merchants and traders fail they are said to become bankrupt. When other men fail they are said to become insolvent.
FAIL, verb transitive
1. To desert; to disappoint; to cease or to neglect or omit to afford aid, supply or strength. it is said, fortune never fails the brave. Our friends sometimes fail us, when we most need them. The aged attempt to walk, when their limbs fail them. In bold enterprises, courage should never fail the hero.
2. to omit; not to perform.
The inventive God, who never fails his part.
3. to be wanting to.
There shall never fail thee a man on the throne. 1 Kings 2:4.
[In the transitive use of this verb there is really an ellipsis of from or to, or other word. In strictness, the verb is not transitive, and the passive particple is, I believe, never used.]
FAIL, noun Omission; non-performance.
1. He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites. Joshua 3:10.
2. Miscarriage; failure; deficience; want; death.
[In these senses little used.]
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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