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# דָּוֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1739

**faint** — used 5 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

faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1739/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּוֶה: adj. faint, unwell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1739/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. faint, unwell—דָּוֶה La 5:17, f. דָּוָה Lv 15:33 = 3 times; faint, La 1:13 (‖ שֹׁמֵמָה) 5:17. unwell, menstruous Lv 15:33; 20:18; Is 30:22 דָּוָה perhaps = כְּלִי דָוָה De.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: faint (2); \[woman\] (1); a menstrual \[rag\] (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 5:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.17/#tree)

עַל־זֶ֗ה הָיָ֤ה דָוֶה֙ לִבֵּ֔נוּ עַל־אֵ֖לֶּה חָשְׁכ֥וּ עֵינֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* on this it.has.become faint heart our on these.\[things\] they.have.grown.dim eyes our

*JPS 1917:* For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;

[Isaiah 30:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.22/#tree)

וְטִמֵּאתֶ֗ם אֶת־צִפּוּי֙ פְּסִילֵ֣י כַסְפֶּ֔ךָ וְאֶת־אֲפֻדַּ֖ת מַסֵּכַ֣ת זְהָבֶ֑ךָ תִּזְרֵם֙ כְּמ֣וֹ דָוָ֔ה צֵ֖א תֹּ֥אמַר לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make.unclean (et) the.plating of.the.images your.silver your and (et) the.sheathing of.the.molten.image your.gold your you will.throw.them.away like a.menstrual.\[rag\] filth you.will.say to it

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with silver, and thy molten images covered with gold; thou shalt put them far away as one unclean; thou shalt say unto it: 'Get thee hence.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1739.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1739/): 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).