Fade
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: 2 Samuel 22:46
- Last Reference: James 1:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H5034 Used 3 times
FADE, adjective Weak; slight; faint. [Not in use.]
FADE, verb intransitive
1. To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or to lose a color entirely. A green leaf fades and becomes less green or yellow. Those colors are deemed the best, which are least apt to fade
2. To wither, as a plant; to decay.
Ye shall be as an oak, whose leaf fadeth. Isaiah 1:1.
3. To lose strength gradually; to vanish.
When the memory is weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade
4. To lose luster; to grow dim.
The stars shall fade away.
5. To decay; to perish gradually.
We all do fade as a leaf. Isaiah 64:6.
An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1 Peter 1:1.
6. To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable.
The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James 1:11.
7. To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker.
8. To disappear gradually; to vanish.
FADE, verb transitive To cause to wither; to wear away; to deprive of freshness or vigor.
No winter could his laurels fade
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.
FA'DED, participle passive Become less vivid, as color; withered; decayed; vanished.