Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. 2. (v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. 3. (v. i.) To cause to droop or pine. 4. (n.) See Languishment.

Multi-Version Concordance Languish (13 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand to help it. (DBY) 1 Samuel 2:33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar,'shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart; and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. (See JPS) Job 17:5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. (See NAS) Psalms 6:2 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled. (See JPS RSV) Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) Isaiah 19:8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. (Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV) Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Lamentations 2:8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV) Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore dost thou sigh? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall languish, and all knees shall melt into water: behold, it cometh; it is here, saith the Lord Jehovah. (DBY) Hosea 4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV) Joel 1:10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) Joel 1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. (Root in KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)