- כהא
- כְּהִי, כְּהָאch. sam( 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. to make dim). Targ. Gen. 27:1. Targ. 1 Kings 14:4; a. e.Y.Ned.IX, 41b bot. עיני כַּהֲיָיא my eye-sight is failing. Pa. כַּהֵי, כַּהֵה 1) to dim, make blind. Yoma 69b; Snh.64a כַּהֲיִינְהוּ לעיניה Ar. (ed. כחלינהו, cmp. כְּבִי) they made his eye-sight dim. Ib. 27a ליכַהֲיוּהוּ לעיניה (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 80) he shall be blinded. 2) (sub. לִבֵּיה) to be angry; (with ב־ of person) to rebuke. Targ. 1 Sam. 3:13. Af. אַכְחֵי 1) to dim. Targ. Ez. 32:7 באַכְהָיוּתִי when I make dim (h. text בכבותך). 2) to make the heart faint, to annoy, reproach (falsely). Ib. 13:22 אַכְהֵיתִין לבוכ׳ ye denounced the heart of the righteous to be false (h. text הכאות). Ithpe. אִתְכְּהִי to be reproached. Ib. (h. text הכאבתיו).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.