Be blunt
קָהָהStrong’s H6949qahah (qa-hah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qahah is the Hebrew word usually translated “blunt”, “it is blunt” and “are blunt”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.”
Meaning
- To be blunt, be dull(Qal) to be blunt, be dull · (Piel) to be blunt
How it's translated
- they will be blunt 2
- it is blunt 1
- they are blunt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 31:29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
- Jeremiah 31:30But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
- Ezekiel 18:2What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
Hebrew dictionary
קָהָה qahah · be blunt
1) to be blunt, be dull 1a) (Qal) to be blunt, be dull 1b) (Piel) to be blunt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “blunt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLUNT, adjective
[from the root of Gr.to dull.]
- Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Hard to penetrate. [Unusual.]
All definitions and other forms of “blunt”
BLUNT, verb transitive
To dull the edge or point, by making it thicker.
- To repress or weaken any appetite, desire or power of the mind; to impair the force of any passion which affects the mind, or of any evil or good which affects the body; as, to blunt the edge of love, of pain, or of suffering.
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.