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# דְּוַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1741

**illness** — used 2 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

illness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1741/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּוַי: illness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1741/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] illness, עֶרֶשׂ דְּוָי֑ ψ 41:4 bed of languishing (Che); sg. cstr. (Ew De Di) הֵמָּה כִּדְוֵי לַחְמִי Jb 6:7 they (i.e. my sufferings) are like disease (VB loathsomeness) in my meat, cf. Di; but text dub.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.7/#tree)

מֵאֲנָ֣ה לִנְגּ֣וֹעַ נַפְשִׁ֑י הֵ֝֗מָּה כִּדְוֵ֥י לַחְמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* it.refuses to touch.\[them\] self my they \[are\].like the.illness my.food my

*JPS 1917:* My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as the sickness of my flesh.

[Psalms 41:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.41.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.41.4/#tree)

יְֽהוָ֗ה יִ֭סְעָדֶנּוּ עַל־עֶ֣רֶשׂ דְּוָ֑י כָּל־מִ֝שְׁכָּב֗וֹ הָפַ֥כְתָּ בְחָלְיֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh he will.support.him on a.couch of.illness all bed his you.have.changed in sickness his

*JPS 1917:* The LORD support him upon the bed of illness; mayest Thou turn all his lying down in his sickness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1741.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1741/): 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).