Strong's #3543: kahah (pronounced kaw-haw')

a primitive root; to be weak, i.e. (figuratively) to despond (causatively, rebuke), or (of light, the eye) to grow dull:-- darken, be dim, fail, faint, restrain, X utterly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâhâh

1) to grow weak, grow dim, grow faint, falter, be weak, be dim, be darkened, be restrained, be faint, fail

1a) (Qal) to grow dim, grow faint

1b) (Piel) to faint, grow weak, grow faint

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Genesis 27:1: "when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called"
Deuteronomy 34:7: "old his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated."
1 Samuel 3:13: "he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not."
Job 17:7: "Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members"
Isaiah 42:4: "He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till judgment in the earth:"
Ezekiel 21:7: "hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak"
Zechariah 11:17: "shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened."
Zechariah 11:17: "shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. shall be utterly darkened."