yaga · grow weary, toil

What it means

yaga (יָגַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow weary, toil”.

Grow weary, be tired from effort; also to toil, or to make another weary.

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 be left without strength after great effort.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• weary ×7
• I am weary ×3
• you wore yourself out ×3
• You have wearied ×2
• labor ×2
• I have worn myself out ×1
• do I toil ×1
• have we wearied him ×1
• labored ×1
• wear themselves out ×1
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×12
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Malachi×2

• Joshua 7:3

  They returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not let all the people go up; let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for they are few.”

• Joshua 24:13

  And I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities that you had not built, and you live in them; of vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant you are eating.’

• 2 Samuel 23:10

  He rose and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and his hand stuck to the sword; and YHWH brought about a great salvation on that day; and the people returned after him only to strip the slain.

• Job 9:29

  I will be counted wicked; why then do I toil in vain?

• Psalms 6:6

  I am weary with my groaning; every night I flood my bed; with my tears I soak my couch.

• Psalms 69:3

  I am weary with my calling; my throat is parched; my eyes are consumed while waiting for my Elohim.

• Proverbs 23:4

  Do not wear yourself out to get rich; from your own understanding desist.

• Ecclesiastes 10:15

  The toil of the senseless wearies him, because he does not know how to go to the city.

• 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 43:22

  But you have not called on me, Jacob, for you have grown weary of me, Israel.

• Isaiah 43:23

  You have not brought me the sheep of your burnt offerings, and with your sacrifices you have not honored me; I have not made you serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

• Isaiah 43:24

  You have not bought me with silver aromatic cane, and with the fat of your sacrifices you have not satisfied me; but you have made me serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.

• Isaiah 47:12

  Stand now with your spells and with the great number of your sorceries, in which you have worn yourself out from your youth; perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will cause terror.

• Isaiah 47:15

  So they are to you, those with whom you wore yourself out, your merchants from your youth; each to his own side they wander; there is no one to save you.”

• Isaiah 49:4

  But I said, “In vain I have worn myself out; for emptiness and vapor I have spent my strength; yet surely my right is with YHWH, and my wages with my Elohim.”

• 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.

• Isaiah 62:8

  YHWH has sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength: “I will certainly not give your grain again as food to your enemies, and foreigners will certainly not drink your new wine for which you wore yourself out;

• Isaiah 65:23

  They will not wear themselves out in vain, nor bear children for terror; for they are the offspring of the blessed of YHWH, and their offshoots with them.

• Jeremiah 45:3

  You said, ‘Woe now to me, for YHWH has added affliction to my pain; I am weary with my sighing, and rest I have not found.’

• 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.

• Lamentations 5:5

  On our neck we are pursued; we are weary, and no rest is given to us.

• Habakkuk 2:13

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

• Malachi 2:17

  You have wearied YHWH with your words. And you say, “How have we wearied him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of YHWH, and in them he delights”; or, “Where is the Elohim of judgment?”

And 1 more times.