1. כחה
to clear the throat, expectorate
The corpus record — Hebrew
כֹּחָ֖הּ
koach
to clear the throat, expectorate
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 127 · 4.14/10k
Senses
2. כֹּחַ
strength, power
3. כֹּחַ
chameleon
4. כֹּחַ
vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
Attestations
- כֹּחָ֖/הּ Genesis 4:12 (BHS)
- כֹּחִ֔/י Genesis 31:6 (BHS)
- כֹּחִ֖/י Genesis 49:3 (BHS)
- כֹּחִ֑/י Exodus 9:16 (BHS)
- בַּ/כֹּ֑חַ Exodus 15:6 (BHS)
- בְּ/כֹ֥חַ Exodus 32:11 (BHS)
6 of 127 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.