STRONGS NUMBER H3856


Word Summary
lahah: to languish, faint
Original Word: לָהַהּ
Transliteration: lahah
Phonetic Spelling: (law-hah')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to languish, faint
Meaning: to be rabid, to languish
Strong's Concordance
faint, mad

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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3856. lahah

[לָהָה‎] verb languish, faint (= לָאָה‎) (לְהִי ᵑ7‎, id.; —

Qal Imperfect3feminine singular with apocope אֶרֶץ וַתֵּ֫לַהּGenesis 47:13 (of famine).

[לִהְלֵהַּ‎]

verb quadriliteral amaze, startle (compare Syriac Palpel confudit, obstupefecit; Ethpalpel stupore percussus est; consternatio, all in Lexicons, PS1894) —

Hithpalpel Participle מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ‎ as substantive = madman, followed by זִקִים הַיֹּרֶה‎ Prov Genesis 26:18 (see Now).