כהה

כהי, כָּהָה(b. h.; cmp. כָּוָה) 1) to be dim (of sight, light). Gen. R. s. 65 כָּהוּ עיניו his eyes grew dim. Ib. שיִכְהוּ עיניו that his eye-sight shall fail. Kidd.24b הכהו … וכָהֲתָה if the master struck him on his eye, and it grew dim; a. fr.Part. pass. כָּהוּי, f. כָּהוּיָה. Ib. הרי שהיתה עינו כ׳וכ׳ if his eye-sight was dim, and he (the master) made him perfectly blind. 2) (of color) to be dull, v. כֵּהֶה Tosef.Erub.XI (VIII), 8; Tanḥ. Noah 9, v. כָּחַח. Pi. כִּיהָה, כִּהָה to grow duller, to be shaded. Sifra Thazr., Neg., Par. 2, ch. II אם העזוכ׳ if the spot grew brighter and grew duller again; a. fr. 2) to declare doubtful. Neg. IV, ר׳ י׳ כ׳, v. כֵּהֶה. Hif. חִכְהָה 1) same. Y.Shebu.I, 32d, v. כֵּהֶה. Neg. XI, 5 ה׳ בתחלה if the suspicious spot grew fainter at once (before the ordered isolation was begun); ה׳ בראשון if it grew faint in the first week; Tosef. ib. V, 6 quot. in R. S. to Neg. l. c. (ed. Zuck. כהה כתחלה, oth. ed. only כתחלה, corr. acc.); a. fr. 2) to make dim. Gen. R. l. c. הריני מַכְהֶהוכ׳ I will make his eye-sight dim. Yalk. Ruth 601 ייסורין … מַכְהִיןוכ׳ sufferings of poverty dim mens eyes. Pesik. R. s. 14 מכהה נלגל חמה dimmed (outshone) the sun in brightness; Pesik. Parah, p. 37a> שיַכְהֶה; a. e.