To grow dim
כָּהָהStrong’s H3543kahah (ka-hah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kahah is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has become dull”, “were dim” and “it had grown dim”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- To grow weak, grow dim, grow faint, falter, be weak, be dim, be darkened, be restrained, be faint, fail(Qal) to grow dim · (Piel) to faint, grow weak, grow faint
- To rebuke
How it's translated
- it has become dull 2
- and they were dim 1
- it had grown dim 1
- he rebuked 1
- and it has grown dim 1
- he will grow dim 1
- and it will grow faint 1
- certainly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:1And 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 13:6And 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 13:56And 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 34:7And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
- 1 Samuel 3:13For 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 17:7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּהָה kahah · to grow dim
1) to grow weak, grow dim, grow faint, falter, be weak, be dim, be darkened, be restrained, be faint, fail 1a) (Qal) to grow dim 1b) (Piel) to faint, grow weak, grow faint
כָּהָה kahah · to rebuke
to rebuke
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rebuked” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REBU'KED, participle passive
Reproved; reprehended; checked; restrained; punished for faults.
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.