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# כָּאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3512

**be disheartened** — 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

be disheartened [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3512/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּאָה: vb.Niph. be disheartened, cowed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3512/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Niph. be disheartened, cowed (cf. Arabic كَأْكَأَ draw back timidly, كَآءَ abstain through timidity)— Pf. וְנִכְאָה consec. Dn 11:30 then shall he be cowed; Pt. נִכְאֵה לֵבָב ψ 109:16 downhearted (‖ עָנִי וְאֶבְיוֹן). Inf. cstr. הַכְאוֹת לֵב צַדִּיק Ez 13:22; but 𝔊 𝔗 Co הכאבתן v. כָּאַב.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: disheartened (1); he will be disheartened (1); made disheartened (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 109:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.16/#tree)

יַ֗עַן אֲשֶׁ֤ר ׀ לֹ֥א זָכַר֮ עֲשׂ֪וֹת חָ֥סֶד וַיִּרְדֹּ֡ף אִישׁ־עָנִ֣י וְ֭אֶבְיוֹן וְנִכְאֵ֨ה לֵבָ֬ב לְמוֹתֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* because that not he.remembered to.do loyalty and he.harassed anyone poor and needy and disheartened of.heart to put.to.\[them\].death

*JPS 1917:* Because that he remembered not to do kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.

[Daniel 11:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.30/#tree)

וּבָ֨אוּ ב֜וֹ צִיִּ֤ים כִּתִּים֙ וְנִכְאָ֔ה וְשָׁ֛ב וְזָעַ֥ם עַל־בְּרִֽית־ק֖וֹדֶשׁ וְעָשָׂ֑ה וְשָׁ֣ב וְיָבֵ֔ן עַל־עֹזְבֵ֖י בְּרִ֥ית קֹֽדֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.come on him ships Kittim and he.will.be.disheartened and he.will.turn.back and he.will.direct.indignation towards \[the\].covenant of.holiness and he.will.act and he.will.turn.back and he.will.pay.attention on \[those.who\].forsake (of).\[the\].covenant of.holiness

*JPS 1917:* For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be cowed, and he shall return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and shall do his pleasure; and he shall return, and have regard unto them that forsake the holy covenant.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3512.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3512/): 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).