דָּוֶה
faint
‘faint’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1739 appears in the Book of Leviticus — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus
- Leviticus 15:33 וְ/הַ/דָּוָה֙ conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.
- Leviticus 20:18 דָּוָ֗ה adj Adjective fs "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
דוה — transliterated dâveh — is a Hebrew adjective carrying the sense “faint.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 5 verses. Its uses concentrate in Leviticus (40% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 15:33. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1739 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 2 verses 40%
- Lamentations 2 verses 40%
- Isaiah 1 verse 20%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Faint 1×, Having her sickness 1×, Is faint 1×
- American Standard Version: Faint 1×, Having her sickness 1×, Is faint 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Faint 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sick 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1739 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1739 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1739 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1739 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. faint, La 1:13 (‖ שֹׁמֵמָה) 5:17. e.g. Lamentations 1:13
- 2. unwell, menstruous Lv 15:33; 20:18; Is 30:22 דָּוָה perhaps = כְּלִי דָוָה De. e.g. Leviticus 15:33
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adj. faint, unwell—דָּוֶה La 5:17, f. דָּוָה Lv 15:33 = 3 times;
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דוה (dâvâh) (H1738) — to be ill.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דָּוָה
- , v. דוי
דוי
- [to drip, melt away,] to mourn, repine. Nidd. 23ᵇ (ref. to Deut. XXI, 17 אֹנוֹ, cmp. דְּוַי) מי שלבו דָוֶה עליו a child over whose death his (the father’s) heart is grieved. Ber. 16ᵇ אל יִדְיֶה לבנו may our heart not sink. Kidd. 81ᵇ יִדְווּ כל הדָּוִוים let all those mourn who feel the affliction; Naz. 23ᵃ. Yeb. 47ᵃ the Israelites … are דווים (some ed. דְּווּיִים, Part. pass.) broken down (under persecution). Gen. R. s. 60; s. 74; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 21:17
- to be afflicted. Pesik. Asser, p. 96ᵃ על אותו האיש שנ׳ over this man (me) in his affliction; Tanḥ. R’eeh ed. Bub. 7 (Tanḥ. ib. 10 שנידוהו, Yalk. Deut. 892; Yalk. Prov. 962 שנדוהו, corr. acc.).
- to afflict. Y. R. Hash. I, 57ᵇ bot. מַדְוֶה לה וכ׳ afflicts it (the year, causes prayers and fasting from fear of failure of the crop) in its beginning.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H1739 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דָוֶה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Lamentations 5:17 | 1 |
| דָוָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 30:22 | 1 |
| דָּוָ֗ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 20:18 | 1 |
| דָּוָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Lamentations 1:13 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/דָּוָה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 15:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1739, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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