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# כָּמַהּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3642

**faint** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3642/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּמַהּ: vb. faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3642/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. faint (Arabic كَمِهَ is be pale of face, gray (of daylight), weak-eyed, أَكْمَهُ blind from birth; Syriac ܟܡܰܗ be blind), only fig.— Pf. 3 ms. כ׳ לְךָ בְשָׂרִי ψ 63:2 faint (with longing) for thee (‖ צָֽמְאָה לְךָ נַפְשִׁי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 63:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.2/#tree)

אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אֵלִ֥י אַתָּ֗ה אֲ‍ֽשַׁחֲ֫רֶ֥ךָּ צָמְאָ֬ה לְךָ֨ ׀ נַפְשִׁ֗י כָּמַ֣הּ לְךָ֣ בְשָׂרִ֑י בְּאֶֽרֶץ־צִיָּ֖ה וְעָיֵ֣ף בְּלִי־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* O.God God \[are\].my you I am.seeking.you.earnestly it.is.thirsty for you self my it.longs for you flesh my in a.land of.dryness and weary not water

*JPS 1917:* O God, Thou art my God, earnestly will I seek Thee; my soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee, in a dry and weary land, where no water is.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3642/): 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).