duv describes a condition that wastes away the soul in a pronouncement of dismay and illness.

The sole attested use places duv in a pronouncement where dismay, wasting disease, and fever consume the eyes and waste away the soul.

1. Wasting away the soul · dominant

   In Leviticus 26:16, the feminine plural Hiphil active participle occurs in the clause concerning afflictions appointed upon the hearers; the APB renders the verse with disease and fever that “consume the eyes and pine away the soul.”

   Leviticus 26:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Leviticus 26:16, the APB presents the relevant clause as afflictions that “pine away the soul.” The term's individual English correspondence cannot be isolated beyond that clause.