Lexical Definition

‎כָּהָה‎ kâhâh (kaw-haw') to grow dim ^H:V
a primitive root

darken, be dim, fail, faint, restrain, [idiom] utterly.

• to be weak, i.e. (figuratively) to despond (causatively, rebuke), or (of light, the eye) to grow dull

1) to grow weak, grow dim, grow faint, falter, be weak, be dim, be darkened, be restrained, be faint, fail
1a) (Qal) to grow dim, grow faint
1b) (Piel) to faint, grow weak, grow faint

See Greek: ἐκψύχω · νουθετέω · πωρόω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎כָּהָה‎] verb be or grow dim, faint (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎כְּהָא‎; compare Arabic be , i.e. weak, cowardly) —

Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular ‎כָּֽהֲתָה‎ Deut 34:7 Imperfect ‎יִכְהֶה‎ Isa 42:4 3 feminine singular ‎תִּכְהֶה‎ Zech 11:17 ‎וַתֵּ֫כַהּ‎ Job 17:7 ‎וַתִּכְהֶיןָ‎ Gen 27:1 Infinitive absolute ‎כָּהֹה‎ Zech 11:17 — grow dim, of eye Gen 27:1 (J), Deut 34:7; Job 17:7 of violent putting out of eye Zech 11:17 (twice in verse); he shall not grow dim Isa 42:4, of servant of ‎׳‎‎י‎ under figure of lamp or fire (see Kay Che De), or grow faint (compare Di). Pi`el Perfect 3 feminine singular ‎וְכִהֲתָה‎ consecutive Ezek 21:12* (subject ‎כָּלרֿוּחַ‎; || ‎וְנָמֵס כָּללֵֿב‎) grow faint (Pi`el intransitive, Ges^{«GKC:52»§ 52} k, Kö^{i. 187}; but read perhaps ‎כָּֽהֲתָה‎).

II. [‎כָּהָה‎] verb Pi`el rebuke (Syriac , Mandean ‎כהא‎ (Nö^{M. 72}) id.), only 1Sam 3:13 followed by ‎בְּ‎, ‎וְלֹא‎ ‎כִהָה בָּם‎.

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