- דָּאַב
- דָּאַב(b. h.; cmp. דוב, זוב) to melt, pine away, languish.Hif. הִדְאִיב to melt, to cause to languish. B. Bath.79a (play on מידבא, Num. 21:30) עד שתַּדְאִיב נשמתן (Var. תדיב, תדוב, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 2) until it (the fire of Gehenna) shall melt their soul. Ned.22a (ref. to Deut. 28:65) שמכלה … ומַדְאִיבוכ׳ which ruins the eyesight and makes life languid. Ch. דְּאֵיב.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
