kahah: darken Original Word: כָּהָה
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: kahah
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-haw')
Short Definition: darken
I. [כָּהָה] verb be or grow dim, faint (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּהָא; compare Arabic  be  , i.e. weak, cowardly) — Qal Perfect3feminine singular כָּֽהֲתָה Deuteronomy 34:7; Imperfect יִכְהֶה Isaiah 42:4; 3feminine singular תִּכְהֶה Zechariah 11:17; וַתֵּ֫כַהּ Job 17:7; וַתִּכְהֶיןָ Genesis 27:1; Infinitive absolute כָּהֹה Zechariah 11:17; — grow dim, of eye Genesis 27:1 (J), Deuteronomy 34:7; Job 17:7; of violent putting out of eye Zechariah 11:17 (twice in verse); he shall not grow dim Isaiah 42:4, of servant of ׳י under figure of lamp or fire (see Kay Che De), or grow faint (compare Di). Pi`el Perfect3feminine singular וְכִהֲתָה consecutive Ezekiel 21:12 (subject כָּלרֿוּחַ; "" וְנָמֵס כָּללֵֿב) grow faint (Pi`el intransitive, Ges§ 52 k, Köi. 187; but read perhaps כָּֽהֲתָה). II. [כָּהָה] verb Pi`el rebuke (Syriac  , Mandean כהא (NöM. 72) id.), only 1 Samuel 3:13 followed by בְּ, וְלֹא כִהָה בָּם. כהן (√ of following; meaning dubious, see Dr2Samuel 8:18; Arabic verb  is divine, and  (Qor 52:29) is a seer, the organ (mostly) of a jinn, rarely of a god: the  and the כֹּהֵן must have been originally identical (both alike being guardians of an oracle, at a sanctuary); but their functions diverged: the  gradually lost his connection with the sanctuary, and sank to be a mere diviner; the כהן acquired fuller sacrificial functions: see RSEnc. Brit. ed. 9, xix. 727; WeSkizzen iii. 130 ff., 167; NowArchaeology ii. 89 f.; Phoenician כהן is priest, כהנת priestess).
darken, be dim, fail, faint, restrain, utterly A primitive root; to be weak, i.e. (figuratively) to despond (causatively, rebuke), or (of light, the eye) to grow dull -- darken, be dim, fail, faint, restrain, X utterly.
ḵōh — 67 Occ.
kōh — 486 Occ.
wā·ḵōh — 1 Occ.
wə·ḵōh- — 20 Occ.
kāh — 1 Occ.
ḵā·hă·ṯāh — 1 Occ.
ḵi·hāh — 1 Occ.
kā·hōh — 1 Occ.
ṯiḵ·heh — 1 Occ.
wat·tê·ḵah — 1 Occ.
wə·ḵi·hă·ṯāh — 1 Occ.
yiḵ·heh — 1 Occ.
ḵê·hāh — 4 Occ.
ḵê·hō·wṯ — 1 Occ.
kê·hāh — 3 Occ.
kê·hō·wṯ — 1 Occ.
kê·hāh — 1 Occ.
ḵā·hă·lîn — 2 Occ.
kā·hêl — 2 Occ.
ki·hên — 1 Occ.
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Strong's Hebrew 3543
8 Occurrences
ḵā·hă·ṯāh — 1 Occ.
ḵi·hāh — 1 Occ.
kā·hōh — 1 Occ.
ṯiḵ·heh — 1 Occ.
wat·tê·ḵah — 1 Occ.
wat·tiḵ·he·nā — 1 Occ.
wə·ḵi·hă·ṯāh — 1 Occ.
yiḵ·heh — 1 Occ.
Genesis 27:1
BIB: זָקֵ֣ן יִצְחָ֔ק וַתִּכְהֶ֥יןָ עֵינָ֖יו מֵרְאֹ֑ת
NAS: were too dim to see,
KJV: and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see,
INT: was old Isaac dim and his eyes to seeDeuteronomy 34:7
BIB: בְּמֹת֑וֹ לֹֽא־ כָהֲתָ֥ה עֵינ֖וֹ וְלֹא־
NAS: his eye was not dim, nor
KJV: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force
INT: died nor dim his eye nor 1 Samuel 3:13
BIB: בָּנָ֔יו וְלֹ֥א כִהָ֖ה בָּֽם׃
NAS: on themselves and he did not rebuke them.
KJV: made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
INT: his sons did not rebuke Job 17:7
BIB: וַתֵּ֣כַהּ מִכַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י
NAS: My eye has also grown dim because
KJV: Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
INT: grown of grief my eye Isaiah 42:4
BIB: לֹ֤א יִכְהֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א יָר֔וּץ
NAS: He will not be disheartened or crushed
KJV: He shall not fail nor be discouraged,
INT: not will not be disheartened or crushed Ezekiel 21:7
BIB: כָל־ יָדַ֜יִם וְכִהֲתָ֣ה כָל־ ר֗וּחַ
NAS: every spirit will faint and all knees
KJV: and every spirit shall faint, and all knees
INT: all hands will faint every spirit Zechariah 11:17
BIB: וְעֵ֥ין יְמִינ֖וֹ כָּהֹ֥ה תִכְהֶֽה׃ ס
NAS: And his right eye will be blind.
KJV: eye shall be utterly darkened.
INT: eye and his right will be blind will be blind Zechariah 11:17
BIB: יְמִינ֖וֹ כָּהֹ֥ה תִכְהֶֽה׃ ס
KJV: eye shall be utterly darkened.
INT: and his right will be blind will be blind 8 Occurrences
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