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title: דְּאָבוֹן — faintness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּאָבוֹן (1671), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: faintness. BDB 1906: faintness, languishing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּאָבוֹן

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«דְּאָבוֹן» 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:** 1671 · **BDB:** דְּאָבוֹן

### Glosses

despair (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

faintness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1671/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

faintness, languishing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1671/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] faintness, languishing, cstr. וְכִלְיוֹן עֵינַיִם וְדַאֲבוֹן נָ֑פֶשׁ Dt 28:65 (cf. Lv 26:16 \& Syriac ܕܽܘܝܳܒܳܐ ܕܢܰܦܫܳܐ v. דוב).

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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 (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 «דְּאָבוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1671/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 28:65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.65/)

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וּבַגּוֹיִ֤ם הָהֵם֙ לֹ֣א תַרְגִּ֔יעַ וְלֹא־יִהְיֶ֥ה מָנ֖וֹחַ לְכַף־רַגְלֶ֑ךָ וְנָתַן֩ יְהוָ֨ה לְךָ֥ שָׁם֙ לֵ֣ב רַגָּ֔ז וְכִלְי֥וֹן עֵינַ֖יִם וְדַֽאֲב֥וֹן נָֽפֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and among the nations (the) those not you.will.rest and not it.will.belong a.resting.place to the.sole your.foot your and he.will.give Yahweh to you there a.heart trembling and failing of.eyes and despair of.being

*JPS 1917:* And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul.

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