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title: כֵּהָה — dimming · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֵּהָה (3545), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: dimming. BDB 1906: n.f. (dimming), lessening, alleviation. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֵּהָה

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«כֵּהָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dimming** — 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:** 3545 · **BDB:** כֵּהָה

### Glosses

relief (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dimming [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3545/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. (dimming), lessening, alleviation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3545/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (dimming), lessening, alleviation;—אֵין כ׳ לְשִׁבְרְךָ of Nineveh Na 3:19 (read גֵּהָה, healing?).

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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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֵּהָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3545/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 3:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.19/)

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אֵין־כֵּהָ֣ה לְשִׁבְרֶ֔ךָ נַחְלָ֖ה מַכָּתֶ֑ךָ כֹּ֣ל ׀ שֹׁמְעֵ֣י שִׁמְעֲךָ֗ תָּ֤קְעוּ כַף֙ עָלֶ֔יךָ כִּ֗י עַל־מִ֛י לֹֽא־עָבְרָ֥ה רָעָתְךָ֖ תָּמִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not relief for fracture your \[is\].severe wound your all \[those.who\].hear report (of).your they.strike a.palm on you (dm) over whom? not has.it.passed evil your continually

*JPS 1917:* There is no assuaging of thy hurt, thy wound is grievous; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

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