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title: כָּהָה — be dim · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּהָה (3543), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: be dim. BDB 1906: vb. grow dim, faint. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּהָה

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«כָּהָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be dim** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 3543 · **BDB:** כָּהָה

### Glosses

it.has.become.dull (2); he.will.grow.dim (1); it.had.grown.dim (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be dim [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3543/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. grow dim, faint [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3543/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be or grow dim, faint (NH id.; Aramaic כְּהָא; cf. Arabic كَهِىَ be أَكْهَى, i.e. weak, cowardly)— Pf. 3 fs. כָּֽהֲתָה Dt 34:7; Impf. יִכְהֶה Is 42:4; 3 fs. תִּכְהֶה Zc 11:17; וַתֵּ֫כַהּ Jb 17:7; וַתִּכְהֶיןָ Gn 27:1: Inf. abs. כָּהֹה Zc 11:17;—grow dim, of eye Gn 27:1 (J), Dt 34:7 Jb 17:7; of violent putting out of eye Zc 11:17(×2); he shall not grow dim Is 42:4, of servant of י׳ under fig. of lamp or fire (v. Kay Che De), or grow faint (cf. Di). Pf. 3 fs. וְכִהֲתָה consec. Ez 21:12 (subj. כָּל־רוּחַ; ‖ וְנָמֵס כָּל־לֵב) grow faint (Pi intrans., Ges§ 52 k, Köi. 187; but read perhaps כָּֽהֲתָה).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּהָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3543/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 17:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.7/)

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וַתֵּ֣כַהּ מִכַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י וִֽיצֻרַ֖י כַּצֵּ֣ל כֻּלָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.grown.dim from grief eye my and members my \[are\].like (the) shadow of.them all

*JPS 1917:* Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.

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[Isaiah 42:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.4/)

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לֹ֤א יִכְהֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א יָר֔וּץ עַד־יָשִׂ֥ים בָּאָ֖רֶץ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּלְתוֹרָת֖וֹ אִיִּ֥ים יְיַחֵֽילוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* not he.will.grow.dim and not he.will.be.crushed until he.will.establish on the earth justice and for instruction his islands they.will.wait

*JPS 1917:* He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his teaching.

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