to weaken
a.mal describes people, places, and cultivated growth becoming weak, faint, or depleted.
The attested use describes a weakened or depleted condition across human figures, the heart, land and its produce, built defenses, and natural regions. The same broad use covers personal faintness in Jeremiah 15:9, the weakening of a heart in Ezekiel 16:30, and the decline of fields, vines, and the land in Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 24:7, and Joel 1:12.
Senses in use
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becoming weak, faint, or depleted · dominant
The supplied forms describe subjects in a condition of decline: in Jeremiah 15:9, a woman who bore seven is portrayed as exhausted, while in Ezekiel 16:30 the condition is predicated of the heart. The same use extends beyond persons: in Isaiah 16:8 the fields and vine are affected, in Isaiah 24:7 the new wine and vine are affected, and in Lamentations 2:8 the rampart and wall are said to grow weak; the APB renders these clauses with terms such as "weakened," "languishes," and "grown weak."
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the occurrences, the APB varies between "weak," "weakened," "languishes," "grown faint," and, for vegetation and land, "withers." These are presentations of the surrounding clauses rather than fixed one-to-one renderings.