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fail

Meaning of “fail”

Sense 1: To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply. Sense 2: To be entirely wanting.

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First occurrence: Genesis 47:16

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Isaiah 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 31:3 · retained source text

Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit: when the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and hee that is holpen shall fall downe, and they all shall faile together.

Isaiah 32:6
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 32:6 · retained source text

For the vile person wil speake villenie, and his heart will worke iniquitie, to practise hypocrisie, and to vtter errour against the LORD, to make emptie the soule of the hungry, and hee will cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile.

Isaiah 32:10
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 32:10 · retained source text

Many dayes and yeeres shall ye be troubled, yee carelesse women: for the vintage shall faile, the gathering shall not come.

1611 marginal noteHeb. days aboue a yere.

Isaiah 34:16
¶ Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 34:16 · retained source text

¶ Seeke ye out of the booke of the LORD, and reade: no one of these shall faile, none shall want her mate: for my mouth, it hath commaunded, and his spirit, it hath gathered them.

Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 38:14 · retained source text

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourne as a doue: mine eyes faile with looking vpward: O LORD, I am oppressed, vndertake for me.

1611 marginal noteOr, ease me.

Isaiah 42:4
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 42:4 · retained source text

He shall not faile nor be discouraged, till he haue set iudgement in the earth: and the yles shall waite for his lawe.

1611 marginal noteHeb. broken.

Isaiah 51:14
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 51:14 · retained source text

The captiue exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that hee should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should faile.

Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 57:16 · retained source text

For I will not contend for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth: for the spirit should faile before me, and the soules which I haue made.

Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 58:11 · retained source text

And the LORD shal guide thee continually, and satisfie thy soule in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters faile not.

1611 marginal noteHebr. droughts.

1611 marginal noteHeb. lye, or deceiue.

Jeremiah 14:6
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 14:6 · retained source text

And the wilde asses did stand in the hie places, they snuffed vp the winde like dragons: their eyes did faile because there was no grasse.

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