Lexical Definition

‎פּוּג‎ pûwg (poog) be numb ^H:V
a primitive root

cease, be feeble, faint, be slacked.

• to be sluggish

1) to grow numb, be feeble, be benumbed
1a) (Qal) to be feeble
1b) (Niphal) to be benumbed

See Greek: ἐξίστημι · κακόω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎פּוּג‎] verb grow numb (Arabic grow cool; **Syriac become cold (Matt 24:12), fail, become weak, inefficient; ‎ᵑ7‎ ‎פּוּג‎ become cold, fail, be or (Pa`el) make ineffectual; Late Hebrew id., fail, vanish. Syriac be cold; ᵑ7 ‎פּוּג‎ cease, be helpless; Late Hebrew id. vanish); —

Qal Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎וַיָּפָג לִבּוֺ‎ Gen 45:26 3 feminine singular ‎תָּפוּג‎ Ps 77:3* of hand (si vera lectio, see ‎נגר‎), i.e. drop helpless; Hab 1:4 of ‎תּוֺרָה‎, i.e. be ineffective. Niph`al Perfect 1 singular ‎נְפוּגֹתִי וְנִדְכֵּיתִי‎ Ps 38:9* I am benumbed and crushed (figurative); read probably also ‎אֶפּוֺגָה‎ Ps 88:16* (for ᵑ0 ἅπ. λεγ. ‎אָפוּנָה‎), Ol Hup Dy Gr Che ‎אָפוּגָה‎.

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