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Faint

דַּוָּיStrong’s H1742

davva (dav-va)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Davva is the Hebrew word usually translated “faint”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”
Isaiah 1:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Faint (of heart)
How it's translated
  • faint 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1
  • Jeremiah 1
  • Lamentations 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

דַּוָּי davva · faint

faint (of heart)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “faint” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FAINT, adjective

[Latin vanus, whence to vanish. Eng. to wane.]

  1. weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, to be rendered faint by excessive evacuations.
  2. Weak; feeble; languid; exhausted; as faint with fatigue, hunger or thirst.
  3. Weak, as color; not bright or vivid; not strong; as a faint color; a faint red or blue; a faint light.
  4. Feeble; weak, as sound; not loud; as a faint sound; a faint voice.
All definitions and other forms of “faint”
  1. Imperfect; feeble; not striking; as a faint resemblance or image.
  2. Cowardly; timorous.
  3. Feeble; not vigorous; not active; as a faint resistance; a faint exertion.
  4. Dejected; depressed; dispirited.“My heart is faint” Lamentations 1:22

FAINT, verb intransitive

  1. To lose the animal functions; to lose strength and color, and become senseless and motionless; to swoon; sometimes with away. he fainted for loss of blood.
  2. To become feeble; to decline or fail in strength and vigor; to be weak.“If I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way” Mark 8:3
  3. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit.“Let not your hearts faint” Deuteronomy 20:3“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small” Proverbs 24:10
  4. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

FAINT, verb transitive

To deject; to depress; to weaken. [Unusual.]

    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.