דָּוֶה
dâveh · H1739 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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menstruous woman
Female person discharging blood and other material from the lining of the uterus at intervals of about one lunar month; regarded as ritually unclean
ExamplesLeviticus 15:33 and for the woman who is ill because of menstrual impurity, and for the one who has a discharge, whether a male or a female, or a man who sleeps with an unclean woman.
Leviticus 20:18 ‘If there is a man who sleeps with a menstruous woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood; so both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Isaiah 30:22 And you will desecrate your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”
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menstrual discharge
Blood and other material from the lining of the uterus discharged from the body in the menstrual period; regarded as unclean
ExamplesIsaiah 30:22 And you will desecrate your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”
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filthy things, meaning objects stained by menstruation
An unspecified object brought in contact with a woman undergoing menstruation, regarded as unclean
ExamplesIsaiah 30:22 And you will desecrate your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”
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menstruous cloth
A piece of cloth worn or touched by a woman undergoing menstruation, regarded as unclean
ExamplesIsaiah 30:22 And you will desecrate your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”
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faint, weak
State in which someone feels physically weak; as if one were menstruating
ExamplesLamentations 1:13 “From the height He sent fire into my bones, And it dominated them. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me desolate, Faint all day long.
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stunned, confused
Literally, "confused heart": state in which someone is unable to think properly as a result of hardship
ExamplesLamentations 5:17 Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כְּמוֹas, like 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- רָפֶה râpheh · H7504 · weak, discouraged
- Both describe physical weakness or faintness—דָּוֶה (dâveh, H1739) associated especially with illness, רָפֶה (râpheh, H7504) more generally—overlapping in the sense of bodily debility.
- יָעֵף yâʻêph · H3287 · faint, weary
- Both denote states of physical weakness or faintness and could substitute for one another describing exhaustion or debilitation, though דָּוֶה (dâveh, H1739) also carries broader, illness-specific senses.
Semantic domains 6 entries
- People001001003
- דָּוֶה, applied substantivally, names the woman herself who is in a state of menstrual impurity, the person affected rather than the condition alone, as in the phrase for a sick or unclean woman.
- Body Products001003001002
- דָּוֶה also describes the discharge or flow of blood itself in the impurity laws of Leviticus, tying the word to the bodily fluid whose presence renders a person unclean.
- Objects001
- In Isaiah 30:22 דָּוֶה is applied to a discarded, defiled cloth or object, likened to something thrown away as unclean, extending the word's impurity sense to an inanimate item.
- Clothing001003001001002
- That same Isaiah passage specifically pictures דָּוֶה as a soiled menstrual cloth or rag, a piece of cloth rendered unclean and cast away with contempt.
- Weak002001001069
- דָּוֶה also carries the sense of being faint or sick, a condition of physical weakness and debility that overlaps with the word's broader range for an unwell or ailing person.
- Non-Think002004002014
- By extension דָּוֶה describes a mind dulled or made faint, a diminished mental or perceptual state accompanying the physical weakness the word conveys elsewhere.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1739. daveh דָּוֶה adjective faint, unwell — דָּוֶה Lam 5:17, feminine דָּוָה Lev 15:33…
דָּוֶה adjective faint, unwell — דָּוֶה Lam 5:17, feminine דָּוָה Lev 15:33 Lev 15:3t.;
1 faint, Lam 1:13 (|| שֹׁמֵמָה) Lam 5:17.
2 unwell, menstruous Lev 15:33; Lev 20:18; Isa 30:22 דָּוָה perhaps = דָוָה כְּלִי De.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 6 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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