Sick
דָּוֶהStrong’s H1739daveh (da-veh)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Daveh is the Hebrew word usually translated “faint”, “menstruating” and “menstrual”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.”
Meaning
- Faint, unwellfaint, weak · unwell, menstruous
How it's translated
- faint 2
- and the menstruating 1
- menstruating 1
- a menstrual 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Lamentations 2
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 20:18And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
- Isaiah 30:22Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
- Lamentations 1:13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Lamentations 5:17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּוֶה daveh · sick
1) faint, unwell 1a) faint, weak 1b) unwell, menstruous
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sick” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SICK, adjective
[Qu.Gr. squeamish, lothing.]
- Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach. [This is probably the primary sense of the word.] Hence,
- Disgusted; having a strong dislike to; with of; as, to be sick of flattery; to be sick of a country life.
- Affected with a disease of any kind; not in health; followed by of; as to be sick of a fever.
- Corrupted. [Not in use nor proper.]
All definitions and other forms of “sick”
- The sick, the person or persons affected with the disease.
SICK, verb transitive
To make sick [Not in use. See Sicken.]
SICK'-BIRTH, noun
In a ship of war, an apartment for the sick
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.