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Be disheartened

כָּאָהStrong’s H3512

kaah (ka-ah)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Kaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “disheartened of” and “disheartened”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.”
Daniel 11:30 KJV
Meaning
  1. To be sad, be disheartened(Niphal) to be disheartened, be cowed · (Hiphil) to make sad
How it's translated
  • and disheartened of 1
  • disheartened 1
  • and he will be disheartened 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1
  • Ezekiel 1
  • Daniel 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

כָּאָה kaah · be disheartened

1) to be sad, be disheartened 1a) (Niphal) to be disheartened, be cowed 1b) (Hiphil) to make sad

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

DISHEARTENED, participle passive

Dishartned. Discouraged; depressed in spirits; cast down.

    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.