כָּהָה
ka.hah
“to grow dim”
Definition
to be weak, i.e. (figuratively) to despond (causatively, rebuke), or (of light, the eye) to grow dull
a primitive root;
- to grow weak, grow dim, grow faint, falter, be weak, be dim, be darkened, be restrained, be faint, fail 1a) (Qal) to grow dim 1b) (Piel) to faint, grow weak, grow faint
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
כָּהָה appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”“Here I am,” Esau replied.
He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth.In His law the islands will put their hope.”
My eyes have grown dim with grief,and my whole body is but a shadow.
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