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title: דָּוָה — be ill · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּוָה (1738), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be ill. BDB 1906: vb. be ill, unwell. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּוָה

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«דָּוָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be ill** — 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:** 1738 · **BDB:** דָּוָה

### Glosses

of (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be ill [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1738/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be ill, unwell [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1738/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be ill, unwell (NH ד׳ sorrowful, miserable, not in physical sense; cf. Arabic دَوِىَ \[دَآءَ\] be ill; Ethiopic ደወየ Assyrian perhaps deriv. diʾû, illness ZimBP 96, 97; Aramaic דְּוִי, דְּוָא, ܕܘܳܐ, ܕܘܺܝ be sad)— Inf. cstr. אִשָּׁה … כִּימֵי נִדַּת דְּוֹתָהּ Lv 12:2.

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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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּוָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1738/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.12.2/)

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דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אִשָּׁה֙ כִּ֣י תַזְרִ֔יעַ וְיָלְדָ֖ה זָכָ֑ר וְטָֽמְאָה֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים כִּימֵ֛י נִדַּ֥ת דְּוֺתָ֖הּ תִּטְמָֽא׃

*Word for word:* speak to the.people of.Israel (cmp) a.woman (dm) she.will.bear.a.child and she.will.bear a.male and she.will.be.unclean seven days like the.days of.the.impurity of her.being.unwell she.will.be.unclean

*JPS 1917:* Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a woman be delivered, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.

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