דָּוָה dâvâh — to be sick (as if in menstruation)
Translated in the KJV as infirmity.
a primitive root; to be sick (as if in menstruation).
dâvâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
דְּוֺתָ֖הּ Lev 12:2 Infinitive construct
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›