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Genesis 4:5

And toward Spearhead and toward his gift he has not become dim.162b And he is kindling163 to Spearhead exceedingly, and his faces are falling.164

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162b

Hebrew "לא שעה" means "he has not become dim". Strongs #8159. An absolute sense of "dim" or "dull" in relation to the eye is given in Isaiah 32:3. There are only 15 occurrences of the verb. It's not common, and the contexts are generally negative. The definitions given in the lexicons are quite contradictory:

"depart, be dim, be dismayed, look away, regard, have respect, spare, turn"