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# דָּאֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1669

**become faint** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

become faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1669/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּאֵב: vb. become faint, languish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1669/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. become faint, languish (NH id. Hiph.; cf. Arabic دَأَبَ toil, weary oneself; v. also דְּאָבָה, דְּאָבוֹן & cf. דוב)— Pf. 3 fs. דָּֽאֲבָה ψ 88:10 (subj. עַיִן); Inf. לְדַאֲבָה Je 31:12 לֹא יוֹסִיפוּ לְד׳ (subj. ransomed Israel);—Je 31:25 has נֶפֶשׁ דָּֽאֲבָה, of hunger (‖ נֶפֶשׁ עֲיֵפָ֑ה), where adj. or pt. seems needed; Hi Gf דְּאֵבָה or דֹּאֲבָה (the punctuators had, according to them, the Aramaic participle in mind); Thes makes relative clause.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[who\] it has become faint (1); become faint (1); it has become faint (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 31:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.25/#tree)

כִּ֥י הִרְוֵ֖יתִי נֶ֣פֶשׁ עֲיֵפָ֑ה וְכָל־נֶ֥פֶשׁ דָּאֲבָ֖ה מִלֵּֽאתִי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) I.give.water.to \[the\].throat of.\[the\].weary and every person \[who\].it.has.become.faint I.fill

*JPS 1917:* For I have satiated the weary soul, and every pining soul have I replenished.

[Psalms 88:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.10/#tree)

עֵינִ֥י דָאֲבָ֗ה מִנִּ֫י עֹ֥נִי קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהוָ֣ה בְּכָל־י֑וֹם שִׁטַּ֖חְתִּי אֵלֶ֣יךָ כַפָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* eye my it.has.become.faint from affliction I have.called.out.to.you O.Yahweh on every day I.have.spread.out to you palms my

*JPS 1917:* Mine eye languisheth by reason of affliction; I have called upon Thee, O LORD, every day, I have spread forth my hands unto Thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1669.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1669/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).