H3543: כָּהָה
kâhâh · pronounced kaw-haw' · “to grow dim”
Definition
to be weak, i.e. (figuratively) to despond (causatively, rebuke), or (of light, the eye) to grow dull
KJV translates it as: darken, be dim, fail, faint, restrain, [idiom] utterly.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) to grow dim
1b) (Piel) to faint, grow weak, grow faint
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3543 is translated
- it has become dull ×2
- they were too dim ×1
- it had grown dim ×1
- he rebuked ×1
- it has grown dim ×1
- he will grow dim ×1
- it will grow faint ×1
- certainly to dim ×1
- it will grow dim ×1
Bible verses with H3543 (kâhâh)
Kâhâh appears in 9 verses.
- Genesis 27:1
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
- Leviticus 13:6
And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
- Leviticus 13:56
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
- Deuteronomy 34:7
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
- 1 Samuel 3:13
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
- Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
- Isaiah 42:4
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
- Ezekiel 21:7
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God.
- Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.