עָשֵׁשׁ ʻâshêsh — probably to shrink, i.e. fail
Translated in the KJV as be consumed.
a primitive root; probably to shrink, i.e. fail.
ʻâshêsh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›