KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of fade, meaning to wither, lose freshness or brightness, weaken, or pass away.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Isaiah 28:1
Complete exact-word concordance
WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
¶ Woe to the crowne of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flowre, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are ouercome with wine.
1611 marginal noteHeb. broken.
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
And the glorious beautie which is on the head of the fat valley, shall bee a fading flowre, and as the hastie fruite before the summer: which when he that looketh vpon it, seeth it, while it is yet in his hand, he eateth it vp.
1611 marginal noteHeb. swalloweth.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigor; liable to perish; not durable; transient. Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.
