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title: דְּאָבָה — faintness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּאָבָה (1670), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: faintness. BDB 1906: n.f. faintness, failure dismay. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּאָבָה

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«דְּאָבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **faintness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1670 · **BDB:** דְּאָבָה

### Glosses

dismay (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

faintness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1670/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. faintness, failure dismay [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1670/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. faintness, failure of mental energy, dismay Jb 41:14 וּלְפָנָיו תָּדוּץ דְּאָבָה and before him (i.e. the crocodile) danceth dismay.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּאָבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1670/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 41:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.14/)

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בְּֽ֭צַוָּארוֹ יָלִ֣ין עֹ֑ז וּ֝לְפָנָ֗יו תָּד֥וּץ דְּאָבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in neck its it.lodges strength and before it his it.leaps dismay

*JPS 1917:* In his neck abideth strength, and dismay danceth before him.

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