yaaf · be weary

What it means

yaaf (יָעַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be weary”.

Be left without strength from tiredness.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To run out of strength.
2. To move through the air very swiftly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• grow tired ×3
• grow weary ×3
• flying ×1
• he grows tired ×1
• tire themselves ×1
• who are exhausted ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Daniel×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Judges 8:15

  He came to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?’”

• Isaiah 40:28

  Do you not know, or have you not heard? The eternal Elohim is YHWH, Creator of the ends of the earth; he does not grow tired nor weary; there is no searching of his understanding.

• Isaiah 40:30

  Youths will grow tired and grow weary, and young men stumbling, will stumble;

• Isaiah 40:31

  but those who wait for YHWH will renew their strength; they will go up with plumage like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not grow tired.

• Isaiah 44:12

  The craftsman of iron with a tool works it over the coals, and with hammers he shapes it, and works it with his strong arm; also he is hungry, and there is no strength; he does not drink water, and he grows tired.

• Jeremiah 2:24

  a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in the craving of her soul sniffing the wind; her heat, who can turn it back? All who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.

• Jeremiah 51:64

  and say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink and not rise because of the evil that I am bringing upon her; and they will grow weary.’” Thus far the words of Jeremiah.

• Daniel 9:21

  while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

• Habakkuk 2:13

  Is it not, look, from YHWH Tsevaot that peoples labor for the fire, and nations grow weary for nothing?