Strong’s H1809 · Hebrew
דָּלַל
dâlal · daw-lal'
Origin a primitive root (compare דָּלָה (H1802));
Meaning to slacken or be feeble; figuratively, to be oppressed
In the King James Version bring low, dry up, be emptied, be not equal, fail, be impoverished, be made thin.
In 9 verses of the King James Version
- Judges 6:6And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
- Job 28:4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
- Psalms 79:8O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
- Psalms 116:6The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
- Psalms 142:6Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
- Proverbs 26:7The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- Isaiah 17:4And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
- Isaiah 19:6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
- Isaiah 38:14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.