Genesis 47:15
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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Faileth
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1 Corinthians 13:8
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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7 occurrences in 7 verses.
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כָּלָה
kâlâh · kaw-law'
4 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: Psalms 71:9Strong's last: Isaiah 15:6
Open full H3615 profile →עֲדַר
ʻădar · aw-dar'
3 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to arrange, as a battle, a vineyard (to hoe); hence, to muster and so to miss (or find wanting)
Strong's KJV usage: dig, fail, keep (rank), lack.
Strong's first: Isaiah 40:26Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:5
Open full H5737 profile →עָזַב
ʻâzab · aw-zab'
2 times translated as this KJV form215 total Strong's occurrences
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 38:10Strong's last: Psalms 40:12
Open full H5800 profile →ἀνέκλειπτος
anékleiptos · an-ek'-lipe-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
not left out, i.e. (by implication) inexhaustible
Strong's KJV usage: :--that faileth not.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 12:33Strong's last: Luke 12:33
Open full G413 profile →ἐκπίπτω
ekpíptō · ek-pip'-to
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to drop away; specially, be driven out of one's course; figuratively, to lose, become inefficient
Strong's KJV usage: :--be cast, fail, fall (away, off), take none effect.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 13:8Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 13:8
Open full G1601 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: Ezekiel 12:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 12:22
Open full H6 profile →אַיִן
ʼayin · ah'-yin
1 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle
Strong's KJV usage: else, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare 370.
Strong's first: Isaiah 44:12Strong's last: Isaiah 44:12
Open full H369 profile →אָפֵס
ʼâphêç · aw-face'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to disappear, i.e. cease
Strong's KJV usage: be clean gone (at an end, brought to nought), fail.
Strong's first: Genesis 47:15Strong's last: Genesis 47:15
Open full H656 profile →גָּעַל
gâʻal · gaw-al'
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
to detest; by implication, to reject
Strong's KJV usage: abhor, fail, lothe, vilely cast away.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 21:10Strong's last: Job 21:10
Open full H1602 profile →חָסֵר
châçêr · khaw-sare'
1 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
lacking; hence, without
Strong's KJV usage: destitute, fail, lack, have need, void, want.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 10:3Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:3
Open full H2638 profile →כָּחַשׁ
kâchash · kaw-khash'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
to be untrue, in word (to lie, feign, disown) or deed (to disappoint, fail, cringe)
Strong's KJV usage: deceive, deny, dissemble, fail, deal falsely, be found liars, (be-) lie, lying, submit selves.
Strong's first: Psalms 109:24Strong's last: Psalms 109:24
Open full H3584 profile →כָּשַׁל
kâshal · kaw-shal'
1 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
Strong's KJV usage: bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, × utterly, be weak.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 31:10Strong's last: Psalms 31:10
Open full H3782 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: Isaiah 41:17Strong's last: Isaiah 41:17
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H656
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.
H1602
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
H3782
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
H5800
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
H5800
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
H3615
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
H3615
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
H3584
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
H3615
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
H2638
Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
H3615
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
H5737
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
H5405
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
H369
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
H5737
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
H6
Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
H5737
The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
G413
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
G1601
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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