Window
כַּוָּהStrong’s H3551kavah (ka-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kavah is the Aramaic word usually translated “windows”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
Meaning
- Window
How it's translated
- and windows 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
כַּוָּה kavah · window
window
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “window” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINDOW, noun
[ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]
- An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary.
- An aperture or opening.“A window shalt thou make to the ark” Genesis 6:16
- The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.
- An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.“The windows of heaven were opened” Genesis 7:11
All definitions and other forms of “window”
- Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5:28
- Lines crossing each other.
WINDOW, verb transitive
- To furnish with windows.
- To place at a window [Unusual.]
- To break into openings. [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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.