Faint
כֵּהֶהStrong’s H3544keheh (ke-heh)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Keheh is the Hebrew word usually translated “dull”, “dim” and “faint”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:”
Meaning
- Dim, dull, colourless, be dark, faint
How it's translated
- dull 4
- dim 2
- faint 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 4
- Isaiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:26But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
- Leviticus 13:28And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.
- Leviticus 13:39Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
- 1 Samuel 3:2And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
- Isaiah 42:3A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
- Isaiah 61:3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Hebrew dictionary
כֵּהֶה keheh · faint
dim, dull, colourless, be dark, faint
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.]
- weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, to be rendered faint by excessive evacuations.
- Weak; feeble; languid; exhausted; as faint with fatigue, hunger or thirst.
- Weak, as color; not bright or vivid; not strong; as a faint color; a faint red or blue; a faint light.
- Feeble; weak, as sound; not loud; as a faint sound; a faint voice.
All definitions and other forms of “faint”
- Imperfect; feeble; not striking; as a faint resemblance or image.
- Cowardly; timorous.
- Feeble; not vigorous; not active; as a faint resistance; a faint exertion.
- Dejected; depressed; dispirited.“My heart is faint” Lamentations 1:22
FAINT, verb intransitive
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.