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title: דָּוֶה — faint · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּוֶה (1739), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: faint. BDB 1906: adj. faint, unwell. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּוֶה

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«דָּוֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **faint** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 1739 · **BDB:** דָּוֶה

### Glosses

faint (2); \[woman\] (1); a.menstrual.\[rag\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

faint [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1739/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. faint, unwell [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1739/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. faint, unwell—דָּוֶה La 5:17, f. דָּוָה Lv 15:33 = 3 times; faint, La 1:13 (‖ שֹׁמֵמָה) 5:17. unwell, menstruous Lv 15:33; 20:18; Is 30:22 דָּוָה perhaps = כְּלִי דָוָה De.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּוֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1739/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 5:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.17/)

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עַל־זֶ֗ה הָיָ֤ה דָוֶה֙ לִבֵּ֔נוּ עַל־אֵ֖לֶּה חָשְׁכ֥וּ עֵינֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* on this it.has.become faint heart our on these.\[things\] they.have.grown.dim eyes our

*JPS 1917:* For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;

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[Isaiah 30:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.22/)

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וְטִמֵּאתֶ֗ם אֶת־צִפּוּי֙ פְּסִילֵ֣י כַסְפֶּ֔ךָ וְאֶת־אֲפֻדַּ֖ת מַסֵּכַ֣ת זְהָבֶ֑ךָ תִּזְרֵם֙ כְּמ֣וֹ דָוָ֔ה צֵ֖א תֹּ֥אמַר לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make.unclean (et) the.plating of.the.images your.silver your and (et) the.sheathing of.the.molten.image your.gold your you will.throw.them.away like a.menstrual.\[rag\] filth you.will.say to it

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with silver, and thy molten images covered with gold; thou shalt put them far away as one unclean; thou shalt say unto it: 'Get thee hence.'

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