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Strong's #3543 - כָּהָה
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- to grow weak, grow dim, grow faint, falter, be weak, be dim, be darkened, be restrained, be faint, fail
- (Qal) to grow dim, grow faint
- (Piel) to faint, grow weak, grow faint
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1235) ek (כה KH) AC: Burn CO: Brand AB: ?: The burning of the skin. Related to ik.
A) ek (כה KH) AC: ? CO: Brand AB: ?
Nm ) ek (כה KH) - So: To do something in a certain manner, a reference to the previous or following context. [Hebrew and Aramaic] [df: hkk]KJV (35): thus, so, after, like, hitherto, while, manner - Strongs: H3541 (כֹּה), H3542 (כָּה), H3602 (כָּכָה)
Nf1 ) eek (כהה KHH) - Darkening: KJV (1): healing - Strongs: H3545 (כֵּהָה)
B) eek (כהה KHH) AC: ? CO: Dark AB: ?: The charred color of wood that has been burned.
V) eek (כהה KHH) - Dark: To be dark in the eyes or knowledge. KJV (8): (vf: Paal, Piel) dim, fail, faint, darken, utterly, restrain - Strongs: H3543 (כָּהָה)
Nm) eek (כהה KHH) - Dark: KJV (9): dark, darkish, dim, smoking, heaviness - Strongs: H3544 (כֵּהֶה)
D) eak (כאה KAH) AC: Sad CO: ? AB: ?: A darkening of the soul.
V) eak (כאה KAH) - Sad: KJV (3): (vf: Niphal, Hiphil) sad, broken, grieve - Strongs: H3512 (כָּאָה)
J) efk (כוה KWH) AC: Burn CO: ? AB: ?
V) efk (כוה KWH) - Burn: KJV (2): (vf: Niphal) burn - Strongs: H3554 (כָּוָה)
ff1) eifk (כויה KWYH) - Burn: KJV (2): burn - Strongs: H3555 (כְּוִיָּה)
hf1) efkm (מכוה MKWH) - Burning: KJV (5): burn - Strongs: H4348 (מִכְוָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
be 
, i.e. weak, cowardly) — Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular כָּֽהֲתָה Deuteronomy 34:7; Imperfect יִכְהֶה Isaiah 42:4; 3 feminine 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 Perfect 3 feminine singular וְכִהֲתָה consecutive Ezekiel 21:12 (subject כָּלרֿוּחַ; "" וְנָמֵס כָּללֵֿב) grow faint (Pi`el intransitive, Ges§ 52 k, Kö i. 187; but read perhaps כָּֽהֲתָה).
II. [כָּהָה] verb Pi`el rebuke (Syriac 
, Mandean כהא (Nö M. 72) id.), only 1 Samuel 3:13 followed by בְּ, וְלֹאכִהָה בָּם.
כהן (√ of following; meaning dubious, see Dr 2 Samuel 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 RS Enc. Brit. ed. 9, xix. 727; We Skizzen iii. 130 ff., 167; Now Archaeology ii. 89f.; Phoenician כהן is priest, כהנת priestess).
כָּהָה (Cogn. roots כָּאָה and קָהָה) fut. וַיֵּכַהּ.
(1) to be feeble, to fail in strength, to be cast down in mind, Isaiah 42:4. Specially,
(2) used of a lamp about to go out (see adj. Isaiah 42:3); of eyes become dim, whether by age, Deuteronomy 34:7; Zechariah 11:17; Genesis 27:1 or by grief, Job 17:7.
Piel כִּהָה and כֵּהָה
(1) intrans. to becomepale, as a spot on the skin, Levit. 13:6, 21 Leviticus 13:21, 26 Leviticus 13:26, 28 Leviticus 13:28, 56 Leviticus 13:56 also to be feeble, timid, to be cast down in mind, Ezekiel 21:12 comp. Isaiah 61:3.
(2) to chide, to restrain any one; 1 Samuel 3:13, וְלֹא כִהָה בָּם “and (that) he did not chide them;” i.e. restrain them. Compare כָּאָה. Hence
