yaash · despair

What it means

yaash (יָאַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “despair”.

To give up, to despair, to lose hope of attaining something.

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. Lose all expectation, quit; "there's no point".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• It is hopeless ×2
• despair ×2
• It is no use ×1
• will give up ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2

• 1 Samuel 27:1

  David said to his heart, “Now I shall be swept away one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape without fail to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up on me, seeking me any longer in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

• Job 6:26

  Do you think to reprove words, and the sayings of one in despair as wind?

• Ecclesiastes 2:20

  And I turned around to make my heart despair over all the toil at which I had toiled under the sun.

• Isaiah 57:10

  With the great length of your way you wore yourself out; yet you did not say, ‘It is no use.’ You found life for your hand; therefore you did not grow faint.

• Jeremiah 2:25

  Keep your foot from going barefoot and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! No, for I love strangers, and after them I will go.’

• Jeremiah 18:12

  But they will say: ‘It is hopeless! For after our own plans we will walk, and each one the stubbornness of his evil heart we will do.’