Diversion
דַּחֲוָהStrong’s H1761dachavah (da-cha-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Dachavah is the Aramaic word usually translated “thrusting”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.”
Meaning
- Diversions, musical instruments?, dancing girls, concubines, music
How it's translated
- and thrusting 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
דַּחֲוָה dachavah · diversion
diversions, musical instruments?, dancing girls, concubines, music Aramaic of da.chah (דָּחָה "to thrust" H1760A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “diversion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIVERSION, noun
[Latin, to divert.]
- The act of turning aside from any course; as the diversion of a stream from its usual channel; the diversion of a purpose to another object; the diversion of the mind from business or study.
- That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care, business or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; whatever unbends the mind; as the diversion of youth.
- In war, the act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made, as by an attack or alarm on one wing of an army, when the other wing or center is intended for the principal attack.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.