This verb appears in Psalm 12:1, in a lament that 'the faithful have vanished from among mankind.' The term describes complete disappearance—not just becoming rare but seeming to have ceased to exist. It's stronger than declining in number; it suggests dissolution, as if the category itself has been erased. The psalmist expresses existential loneliness: looking around and finding no one godly, no one trustworthy. Whether literal depopulation or hyperbolic despair, the verb captures the horror of finding oneself alone in one's commitment, the godly having apparently vanished from the earth.