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כֵּהֶה kêheh — feeble, obscure

pronounced kay-heh' · Strong's H3544 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Pi'el

Translated in the KJV as somewhat dark, darkish, wax dim, heaviness, smoking.

from H3543; feeble, obscure.

kêheh in each stem

Pi'el

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 2

כֵּהָ֣ה Lev 13:6 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. (KJV)

כֵּהָ֣ה Lev 13:56 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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