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title: כָּאֶה — cowed · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּאֶה (lemma:כָּאֶה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cowed. BDB 1906: adj. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּאֶה

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«כָּאֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cowed** — 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:** lemma:כָּאֶה · **BDB:** כָּאֶה

### Glosses

of.disheartened.\[people\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cowed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5d0_5b6_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5d0_5b6_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. cowed, ψ 10:10 Qr חֵל בָּאִים; host of cowed ones, but read Kt חלכאים; v. p. 319.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּאֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5d0_5b6_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 10:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.10/)

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יִדְכֶּ֥ה יָשֹׁ֑חַ וְנָפַ֥ל בַּ֝עֲצוּמָ֗יו חֵ֣יל כָּאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* he.is.crushed he.is.bowed.down and he.falls among his.mighty \[ones\] an.army of.disheartened.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall into his mighty claws.

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