This verb describes the languishing or fainting of the land during the severe famine in Genesis 47:13. It parallels the more common לָאָה and conveys the exhaustion or depletion of resources. The Targum uses a cognate form with the same meaning. Spanish "se agotó" (it was exhausted) and German "verschmachtete" (it languished) both capture the sense of complete depletion. The land itself becomes personified as growing weak under the prolonged drought.