ayef · weary, exhausted

What it means

ayef (עָיֵף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “weary, exhausted”.

Faint; also thirsty, dry.

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. Tired, worn out; or dry land.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• weary ×9
• exhausted ×7
• he is faint ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob cooked a stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me gulp down some of the red, this red stuff, for I am exhausted.” That is why his name was called Edom.

• Deuteronomy 25:18

  how he met you on the way and cut off at your rear all the stragglers behind you, when you were weary and worn out; and he did not fear Elohim.

• Judges 8:4

  Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.

• Judges 8:5

  He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give round loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

• 2 Samuel 16:14

  The king and all the people who were with him arrived exhausted, and he caught his breath there.

• 2 Samuel 17:29

  honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd; they brought them near to David and to the people who were with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

• Job 22:7

  You did not give the weary water to drink, and from the hungry you withheld bread.

• Psalms 63:1

  A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. Elohim, my El are you; I seek you earnestly; my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you, in a land dry and weary, without water.

• Psalms 143:6

  I spread out my hands to you; my soul is like an exhausted land for you. Selah.

• Proverbs 25:25

  Cold water to a weary soul, and good news from a land far away.

• Isaiah 5:27

  None is weary and none stumbles in it; none slumbers or sleeps; the belt of its hips is not loosened, nor is the strap of its sandals broken.

• Isaiah 28:12

  to whom he said, “This is the rest; give rest to the weary; and this is the repose.” But they were not willing to hear.

• Isaiah 29:8

  And it will be as when the hungry man dreams, and look, he is eating, and he awakes, and his soul is empty; and as when the thirsty man dreams, and look, he is drinking, and he awakes, and look, he is faint, and his soul longs; so will be the multitude of all the nations that wage war against Mount Zion.

• Isaiah 32:2

  And each one will be like a cover from the wind and a hiding place from the downpour, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shade of a heavy crag in a weary land.

• Isaiah 46:1

  Bel bends, Nebo stoops; their idols are for the animals and for the livestock; the things you carried are loaded, a load for the weary beast.

• Jeremiah 31:25

  For I have drenched the weary soul, and every languishing soul I have filled.”