יָעֵף
yaef · weary, faint
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3287 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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yaef (יָעֵף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “weary, faint”.
Exhausted, without strength from weariness or thirst.
How to say it
ya·ef
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
- Spent by toil or thirst.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- exhausted ×1
- tired ×1
- weary ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 16:2
The king said to Ziba, “What are these to you?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the household of the king to ride, and the bread and the summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for the exhausted in the wilderness to drink.”
- Isaiah 40:29
He gives strength to the tired, and to him who has no vigor he increases power.
- Isaiah 50:4
Adonai YHWH has given me a tongue of disciples, to know how to sustain the weary with a word; he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear like disciples.