H5889: עָיֵף
ʻâyêph · pronounced aw-yafe' · “faint”
Definition
languid
KJV translates it as: faint, thirsty, weary.
Word origin: from H5888 (עָיֵף);
Extended definition
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.