H3856

להה

lahah

Verb · A primitive root

A primitive root meaning properly, to burn, i.e. (by implication) to be rabid (figuratively, insane); also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languish:—faint, mad.

Outline

(Qal) to languish, faint
to amaze, startle

(Hithpalpel) madman (subst)

Usages

Genesis 47:13

¶ And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

Breakdown

Beginning of the story of how Egypt became great (Verse 13-26).

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Proverbs 26:18

As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

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