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title: דַּוָּי — faint · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דַּוָּי (1742), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: faint. BDB 1906: adj. faint. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דַּוָּי

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«דַּוָּי» 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 1742 · **BDB:** דַּוַּי

### Glosses

\[is\].faint (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

faint [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1742/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. faint [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1742/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. faint (on form cf. BaNB 487)—דַּוָּי֑ Is 1:5 + 2 times—faint, always of heart Is 1:5 (‖ לָחֳלִי fig. of condition of people); Je 8:18 La 1:22 of sorrow and distress.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דַּוָּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1742/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 8:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.18/)

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מַבְלִ֥יגִיתִ֖י עֲלֵ֣י יָג֑וֹן עָלַ֖י לִבִּ֥י דַוָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* cheerfulness my on sorrow on me heart my \[is\].faint

*JPS 1917:* Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

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[Isaiah 1:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.5/)

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עַ֣ל מֶ֥ה תֻכּ֛וּ ע֖וֹד תּוֹסִ֣יפוּ סָרָ֑ה כָּל־רֹ֣אשׁ לָחֳלִ֔י וְכָל־לֵבָ֖ב דַּוָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* concerning what? will.you.be.struck again will.you.increase? rebellion all \[the\].head \[is\].for sickness and all \[the\].heart \[is\].faint

*JPS 1917:* On what part will ye yet be stricken, seeing ye stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint;

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