STRONGS NUMBER H1669


Word Summary
daeb: to become faint, languish
Original Word: דָּאַב
Transliteration: daeb
Phonetic Spelling: (daw-ab')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to become faint, languish
Meaning: to become faint, languish
Strong's Concordance
mourn, sorrowful

A primitive root; to pine -- mourn, sorrow(-ful).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1669. daeb

[דָּאֵב‎] verb become faint, languish (Late Hebrew id. Hiph`il; compare Arabic toil, weary oneself; see also דְּאָבוֺן דְּאָבָה,‎ & compare דוב‎) —

Qal Perfect3feminine singular דָּֽאֲבָהPsalm 88:10 (subject עַיִן‎); Infinitive לְדַאֲבָהJeremiah 31:12 לְד יוֺסִיפוּ ׳לֹא‎ (subject ransomed Israel); — 31:25 has דָּֽאֲבָה נֶפֶשׁ‎, of hunger ("" עֲיֵפָ֑ה נֶפֶשׁ‎), where adjective or participle seems needed; Hi Gf דְּאֵבָה‎ or דֹּאֲבָה‎ (the punctuators had, according to them, the Aramaic participle in mind); Thes. makes relative clause.