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# דָּוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1738

**be ill** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be ill [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1738/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּוָה: vb. be ill, unwell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1738/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be ill, unwell (NH ד׳ sorrowful, miserable, not in physical sense; cf. Arabic دَوِىَ \[دَآءَ\] be ill; Ethiopic ደወየ Assyrian perhaps deriv. diʾû, illness ZimBP 96, 97; Aramaic דְּוִי, דְּוָא, ܕܘܳܐ, ܕܘܺܝ be sad)— Inf. cstr. אִשָּׁה … כִּימֵי נִדַּת דְּוֹתָהּ Lv 12:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 12:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.12.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.12.2/#tree)

דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אִשָּׁה֙ כִּ֣י תַזְרִ֔יעַ וְיָלְדָ֖ה זָכָ֑ר וְטָֽמְאָה֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים כִּימֵ֛י נִדַּ֥ת דְּוֺתָ֖הּ תִּטְמָֽא׃

*Word for word:* speak to the.people of.Israel (cmp) a.woman (dm) she.will.bear.a.child and she.will.bear a.male and she.will.be.unclean seven days like the.days of.the.impurity of her.being.unwell she.will.be.unclean

*JPS 1917:* Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a woman be delivered, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1738.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1738/): 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).