H5888: עָיֵף
ʻâyêph · pronounced aw-yafe' · “be faint”
Definition
to languish
KJV translates it as: be wearied.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) to be faint, be weary
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5888 is translated
- he was weary ×2
- it was weary ×2
- it is weary ×1
Bible verses with H5888 (ʻâyêph)
ʻâyêph appears in 5 verses.
- Judges 4:21
Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
- 1 Samuel 14:28
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
- 1 Samuel 14:31
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
- 2 Samuel 21:15
Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
- Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.