kaha · grow dim; grow faint

What it means

kaha (כָּהָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow dim; grow faint”.

Grow dim (of the eyes), grow faint, weak; lose heart.

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. To fade: sight, courage or a flame.
2. To correct someone firmly so that he does not keep doing wrong.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• grow dim ×2
• grown dim ×2
• restrain ×1
• were too dim ×1
• will grow faint ×1
• will utterly ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 27:1

  When Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”

• Deuteronomy 34:7

  And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye had not grown dim, and his vigor had not fled.

• 1 Samuel 3:13

  And I have told him that I am judging his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were bringing a curse on themselves, and he did not restrain them.

• Job 17:7

  And my eye has grown dim from vexation, and my limbs are like a shadow, all of them.

• Isaiah 42:4

  He will not grow dim nor be broken, until he establishes justice in the earth; and for his instruction the coastlands will wait.

• Ezekiel 21:7

  And it will be, when they say to you, ‘Why are you sighing?’ you will say, ‘Because of the news, for it is coming; and every heart will melt, and all hands will go limp, and every spirit will grow faint, and all knees will run with water. Look, it is coming, and it will happen, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Zechariah 11:17

  Woe to the shepherd who is worth nothing, who abandons the sheep! A sword on his arm and on his right eye; his arm will completely wither, and his right eye will utterly grow dim.”

And 1 more times.