# בָּלָה (balah)

Israeli respelling: ba-lah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1086. 15 Old Testament occurrences.

to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)

King James renderings: consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/balah-h1086

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/18/12) — Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- [Deuteronomy 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/4) — Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
- [Deuteronomy 29:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/5) — And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
- [Joshua 9:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/13) — And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by rea…
- [1 Chronicles 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/17/9) — Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neit…
- [Nehemiah 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/21) — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelle…
- [Job 13:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/28) — And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- [Job 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/13) — They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- [Psalms 32:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/32/3) — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
- [Psalms 49:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/14) — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their be…
- [Psalms 102:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/26) — They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shal…
- [Isaiah 50:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/50/9) — Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
- [Isaiah 51:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/6) — Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax ol…
- [Isaiah 65:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/22) — They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and…
- [Lamentations 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/4) — My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.