חָלַשׁ châlash — to prostrate
Translated in the KJV as discomfit, waste away, weaken.
a primitive root; to prostrate; by implication, to overthrow, decay.
châlash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 2Participle (active) 1
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
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 ›