Psalms 58:8
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
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Melteth
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Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
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מָסַס
mâçaç · maw-sas'
2 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
Strong's KJV usage: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, × utterly.
Strong's first: Psalms 68:2Strong's last: Nahum 2:10
Open full H4549 profile →דָּלַף
dâlaph · daw-laf'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to drip; by implication, to weep
Strong's KJV usage: drop through, melt, pour out.
Strong's first: Psalms 119:28Strong's last: Psalms 119:28
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mâçâh · maw-saw'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to dissolve
Strong's KJV usage: make to consume away, (make to) melt, water.
Strong's first: Psalms 147:18Strong's last: Psalms 147:18
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nâçak · naw-sak'
1 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
to pour out, especially a libation, or to cast (metal); by analogy, to anoint a king
Strong's KJV usage: cover, melt, offer, (cause to) pour (out), set (up).
Strong's first: Isaiah 40:19Strong's last: Isaiah 40:19
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tsâraph · tsaw-raf'
1 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
to fuse (metal), i.e. refine (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: cast, (re-) fine(-er), founder, goldsmith, melt, pure, purge away, try.
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Strong's first: Jeremiah 6:29Strong's last: Jeremiah 6:29
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temeç · teh'-mes
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
liquefaction, i.e. disappearance
Strong's KJV usage: melt.
Strong's first: Psalms 58:8Strong's last: Psalms 58:8
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H8557
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
H4549
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
H1811
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
H4529
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
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melt
MELT, verb transitive [Eng.smelt, smalt. We have in these words decisive evidence that s, in smelten, etc. is a prefix. melt in English, is regular, forming melted for its past tense and passive participle. The old participle molten, is used only as an adjective.]
1. To dissolve; to make liquid; to liquefy; to reduce from a solid to a liquid or flowing state by heat; as, to melt wax, tallow or lead; to melt ice or snow.
2. To dissolve; to reduce to first principles.
3. To soften to love or tenderness.
For pity melts the mind to love.
4. To waste away; to dissipate.
In general riot melted down thy youth.
5. To dishearten. Joshua 14:8.
MELT, verb intransitive To become liquid; to dissolve; to be changed from a fixed or solid to a flowing state.
And whiter snow in minutes melts away.
1. To be softened to love, pity, tenderness or sympathy; to become tender, mild or gentle.
MELTing with tenderness and mild compassion.
2. To be dissolved; to lose substance.
--And what seem'd corporal,
MELTed as breath into the wind.
3. To be subdued by affliction; to sink into weakness.
My soul melteth for heaviness--strengthen thou me. Psalms 119:28.
4. To faint; to be discouraged or disheartened.
As soon as we heard these things, our heart melted. Joshua 2:11.
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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