דְּוַי
devay · sickness, loathsome thing
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1741 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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devay (דְּוַי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sickness, loathsome thing”.
Sickness, illness; figuratively, disgust, loathing.
How to say it
de·vay
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
- An ailment that weakens the body and spoils appetite.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- are like the sickness ×1
- illness ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 6:7
My soul refuses to touch them; they are like the sickness of my bread.
- Psalms 41:3
YHWH will support him on the couch of illness; all his bed you have changed in his sickness.