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# קָהָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6949

**be blunt** — used 4 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 blunt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6949/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָהָה: vb. be blunt, dull Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6949/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be blunt, dull (NH id.; Aramaic קְהָא, ܩܗܳܐ );— Impf. 3 fpl. תִּקְהֶינָה Je 31:29, 30 Ez 18:2 (all of teeth). in sense of Qal: Pf. 3 ms. קֵהָה Ec 10:10 if the iron be blunt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: they will be blunt (2); it is blunt (1); they are blunt (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 31:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.29/#tree)

בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם לֹא־יֹאמְר֣וּ ע֔וֹד אָב֖וֹת אָ֣כְלוּ בֹ֑סֶר וְשִׁנֵּ֥י בָנִ֖ים תִּקְהֶֽינָה׃

*Word for word:* in the days (the) those not people.will.say again fathers they.have.eaten sour.grape\[s\] and.\[the\] teeth of.children they.will.be.blunt

*JPS 1917:* In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

[Ecclesiastes 10:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.10/#tree)

אִם־קֵהָ֣ה הַבַּרְזֶ֗ל וְהוּא֙ לֹא־פָנִ֣ים קִלְקַ֔ל וַחֲיָלִ֖ים יְגַבֵּ֑ר וְיִתְר֥וֹן הַכְשֵׁ֖רחָכְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* if it.is.blunt the.iron \[axe\] and he not faces he.has.sharpened and strength(s) he.will.make.strong and.\[is\] an.advantage to.give.success wisdom

*JPS 1917:* If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength; but wisdom is profitable to direct.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6949.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6949/): 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).