{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3543",
  "lemma": "כָּהָה",
  "transliteration": "kâhâh",
  "definition": "to be weak, i.e. (figuratively) to despond (causatively, rebuke), or (of light, the eye) to grow dull",
  "kjv": "darken, be dim, fail, faint, restrain, [idiom] utterly.",
  "occurrences": 8,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[כָּהָה] vb. Pi. rebuke, only 1 S 3:13",
    "כָּהָה vb",
    "[כָּהָה] vb. be or grow dim, faint",
    "Qal grow dim",
    "Pi. grow faint"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:1",
      "text": "When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 34:7",
      "text": "Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/34?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 3:13",
      "text": "For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/3?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 42:4",
      "text": "He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezekiel 21:12",
      "text": "It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/21?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Zechariah 11:17",
      "text": "Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right eye. His arm will be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/11?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 17:7",
      "text": "My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/17?v=7"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3543",
  "formats": {
    "html": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3543",
    "markdown": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3543.md",
    "text": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3543.txt",
    "json": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3543.json"
  },
  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
  "license": "https://besorah.bible/data-licence.txt",
  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}