This noun appears in Nahum 3:19, part of a taunt against Nineveh declaring the finality of its coming destruction. The prophet announces: 'There is no relief (or healing) for your fracture.' The statement is brutally final—Nineveh's wound is mortal, beyond remedy. Some scholars suggest emending to gehah (healing), but the consonantal text supports kehah. The noun derives from a root meaning 'grow dim' or 'lessen,' here in the sense of diminishing or alleviating injury. For Nineveh, no such alleviation will come.