Strong's Definition
from an unused root meaning to gape (as the empty stomach); hunger
KJV Usage: casting down
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יֶ֫שַׁח (ye.shach) — emptiness. a sinking feeling, emptiness
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
1 MIC 6:14 The meaning of the phrase וְיֶשְׁחֲךָ בְּקִרְבֶּךָ is highly uncertain; among the suggestions are: RSV "and there shall be hunger in your inward parts" | NIV "your stomach will still be empty" | NJPS "And there is a gnawing at your vitals" | REB "your food will lie heavy in your stomach" | other meanings suggested for יֶשַׁח are "filth" (HALOT), "dysentery" or "faeces" or "semen" (DCH)
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[יֶ֫שַׁח] n.[m.] ? emptiness (of hunger), meaning conjectured from text; Mi 6:14 ref
