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# כָּהָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3543

**be dim** — used 9 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 dim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3543/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּהָה: vb. grow dim, faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3543/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be or grow dim, faint (NH id.; Aramaic כְּהָא; cf. Arabic كَهِىَ be أَكْهَى, i.e. weak, cowardly)— Pf. 3 fs. כָּֽהֲתָה Dt 34:7; Impf. יִכְהֶה Is 42:4; 3 fs. תִּכְהֶה Zc 11:17; וַתֵּ֫כַהּ Jb 17:7; וַתִּכְהֶיןָ Gn 27:1: Inf. abs. כָּהֹה Zc 11:17;—grow dim, of eye Gn 27:1 (J), Dt 34:7 Jb 17:7; of violent putting out of eye Zc 11:17(×2); he shall not grow dim Is 42:4, of servant of י׳ under fig. of lamp or fire (v. Kay Che De), or grow faint (cf. Di). Pf. 3 fs. וְכִהֲתָה consec. Ez 21:12 (subj. כָּל־רוּחַ; ‖ וְנָמֵס כָּל־לֵב) grow faint (Pi intrans., Ges§ 52 k, Köi. 187; but read perhaps כָּֽהֲתָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it has become dull (2); he will grow dim (1); it had grown dim (1).

## In the verses

[Job 17:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.7/#tree)

וַתֵּ֣כַהּ מִכַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י וִֽיצֻרַ֖י כַּצֵּ֣ל כֻּלָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.grown.dim from grief eye my and members my \[are\].like (the) shadow of.them all

*JPS 1917:* Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.

[Isaiah 42:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.4/#tree)

לֹ֤א יִכְהֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א יָר֔וּץ עַד־יָשִׂ֥ים בָּאָ֖רֶץ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּלְתוֹרָת֖וֹ אִיִּ֥ים יְיַחֵֽילוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* not he.will.grow.dim and not he.will.be.crushed until he.will.establish on the earth justice and for instruction his islands they.will.wait

*JPS 1917:* He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his teaching.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3543.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3543/): 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).