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# דַּוָּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1742

**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

faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1742/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּוַּי: adj. faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1742/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. faint (on form cf. BaNB 487)—דַּוָּי֑ Is 1:5 + 2 times—faint, always of heart Is 1:5 (‖ לָחֳלִי fig. of condition of people); Je 8:18 La 1:22 of sorrow and distress.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: \[is\] faint (3).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 8:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.18/#tree)

מַבְלִ֥יגִיתִ֖י עֲלֵ֣י יָג֑וֹן עָלַ֖י לִבִּ֥י דַוָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* cheerfulness my on sorrow on me heart my \[is\].faint

*JPS 1917:* Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

[Isaiah 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.5/#tree)

עַ֣ל מֶ֥ה תֻכּ֛וּ ע֖וֹד תּוֹסִ֣יפוּ סָרָ֑ה כָּל־רֹ֣אשׁ לָחֳלִ֔י וְכָל־לֵבָ֖ב דַּוָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* concerning what? will.you.be.struck again will.you.increase? rebellion all \[the\].head \[is\].for sickness and all \[the\].heart \[is\].faint

*JPS 1917:* On what part will ye yet be stricken, seeing ye stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1742.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1742/): 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).