דָּאַב
daav · languish
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1669 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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daav (דָּאַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “languish”.
To languish, to waste away from grief or weariness.
How to say it
da·av
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To lose strength little by little from grief.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- languish ×1
- languishes ×1
- languishing ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 88:9
My eye languishes because of affliction; I have called on you, YHWH, every day; I have spread out to you my palms.
- Jeremiah 31:12
And they will come and sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will stream to the goodness of YHWH, to the grain and to the new wine and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul will be like a watered garden, and they will not languish ever again.
- Jeremiah 31:25
For I have drenched the weary soul, and every languishing soul I have filled.”