Lexical Definition

‎דָּאַב‎ dâʼab (daw-ab') to languish ^H:V
a primitive root

mourn, sorrow(-ful).

• to pine

1) (Qal) to become faint, languish

See Greek: ἀσθενέω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎דָּאֵב‎] verb become faint, languish (Late Hebrew id. Hiph`il; compare Arabic toil, weary oneself; see also ‎דְּאָבָה‎, ‎דְּאָבוֺן‎ & compare ‎דוב‎) —

Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular ‎דָּֽאֲבָה‎ Ps 88:10* (subject ‎עַיִן‎); Infinitive ‎לְדַאֲבָה‎ Jer 31:12 ‎׳‎‎לֹא יוֺסִיפוּ לְד‎ (subject ransomed Israel); — Jer 31:25 has ‎נֶפֶשׁ דָּֽאֲבָה‎, of hunger (|| ‎נֶפֶשׁ עֲיֵפָ֑ה‎), where adjective or participle seems needed; Hi Gf ‎דְּאֵבָה‎ or ‎דֹּאֲבָה‎ (the punctuators had, according to them, the Aramaic participle in mind); Thes. makes relative clause.

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