dave · unwell, menstruating

What it means

dave (דָּוֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “unwell, menstruating”.

Unwell, sick; said of a woman in the days of her menstruation; also faint.

How to say it

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

1. A woman during her monthly flow.
2. Weak, without strength, downcast.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• faint ×2
• menstruous cloth ×1
• sickness ×1
• woman who is ill ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×2

• Leviticus 15:33

  and for the woman who is ill with her menstruation, and for the one who has his discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.

• Leviticus 20:18

  And a man who lies with a woman in her sickness and uncovers her nakedness has laid bare her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

• Isaiah 30:22

  And you will defile the overlay of your carved idols of silver, and the plating of your cast image of gold; you will scatter them like a menstruous cloth; “Out!” you will say to it.

• Lamentations 1:13

  From on high he sent fire into my bones, and it ruled over them; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has made me desolate, faint all the day.

• Lamentations 5:17

  For this our heart has become faint; for these things our eyes have grown dark,