כְּהִי, כְּהָא ch. same. Targ. Gen. XXVII, 1. Targ. I Kings XIV, 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. I Sam. III, 13.
Af. - אַכְהֵי 1) to dim. Targ. Ez. XXXII, 7 באַכְהָיוּתִי when I make dim (h. text בכבותך). —2) to make the heart faint, to annoy, reproach (falsely). Ib. XIII, 22 אַכְהֵיתִין לב וכ׳ ye denounced the heart of the righteous to be false (h. text הכאות).
Ithpe. - אִתְכְּהִי to be reproached. Ib. (h. text הכאבתיו).