Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H5889: עָיֵף

ʻâyêph · pronounced aw-yafe' · “faint”

Definition

languid

KJV translates it as: faint, thirsty, weary.

Word origin: from H5888 (עָיֵף);

Extended definition

faint, exhausted, weary

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H5889 is translated

  • weary ×5
  • were exhausted ×2
  • exhausted ×2
  • the weary ×2
  • was exhausted ×1
  • am exhausted ×1
  • are exhausted ×1
  • is a weary one ×1
  • he is faint ×1
  • a weary animal ×1

Bible verses with H5889 (ʻâyêph)

ʻâyêph appears in 17 verses.

  • Genesis 25:29

    And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

  • Genesis 25:30

    And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

  • Deuteronomy 25:18

    How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

  • Judges 8:4

    And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.

  • Judges 8:5

    And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.

  • 2 Samuel 16:14

    And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.

  • 2 Samuel 17:29

    And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

  • Job 22:7

    Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

  • Psalms 63:1

    A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

  • Psalms 143:6

    I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

  • Proverbs 25:25

    As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

  • Isaiah 5:27

    None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

  • Isaiah 28:12

    To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

  • Isaiah 29:8

    It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

  • Isaiah 32:2

    And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

  • Isaiah 46:1

    Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

  • Jeremiah 31:25

    For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.