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H5889עָיֵףa.yeph

faintPart of speech: Hebrew Adjective

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Occurrences by book

  1. 2
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 1
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. 2
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 1
  19. 2
  20. 1
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 5
  24. 1
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

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17 occurrences in 17 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 25:29

    And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

    עָיֵֽף׃ 'a.Yef “[was] exhausted”

  2. Genesis 25:30

    And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom.

    עָיֵ֖ף 'a.Yef “[am] exhausted”

  3. Deuteronomy 25:18

    how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

    עָיֵ֣ף 'a.Yef “[were] exhausted”

  4. Judges 8:4

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

    עֲיֵפִ֖ים 'a.ye.Fim “[were] exhausted”

  5. 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 are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.'

    עֲיֵפִ֣ים 'a.ye.Fim “[are] exhausted”

  6. 2 Samuel 16:14

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

    עֲיֵפִ֑ים 'a.ye.Fim “exhausted”

  7. 2 Samuel 17:29

    and honey, and curd, 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 faint, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'

    וְעָיֵ֥ף (עָיֵ֥ף) 'a.Yef “weary”

  8. Job 22:7

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

    עָיֵ֣ף 'a.Yef “[the] weary”

  9. Psalms 63:2

    O God, Thou art my God, earnestly will I seek Thee; my soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee, in a dry and weary land, where no water is.

    וְעָיֵ֣ף (עָיֵ֣ף) 'a.Yef “weary”

  10. Psalms 143:6

    I spread forth my hands unto Thee; my soul thirsteth after Thee, as a weary land. Selah

    עֲיֵפָ֖ה 'a.ye.Fah “exhausted”

  11. Proverbs 25:25

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

    עֲיֵפָ֑ה 'a.ye.Fah “weary”

  12. 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;

    עָיֵ֤ף 'a.Yef “[is] a weary [one]”

  13. Isaiah 28:12

    To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this is the refreshing'; yet they would not hear.

    לֶֽעָיֵ֔ף (עָיֵ֔ף) 'a.Yef “weary”

  14. Isaiah 29:8

    And it shall be as when a 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

    עָיֵ֔ף 'a.Yef “[he is] faint”

  15. Isaiah 32:2

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

    עֲיֵפָֽה׃ 'a.ye.Fah “weary”

  16. Isaiah 46:1

    Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle; the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.

    לַעֲיֵפָֽה׃ (עֲיֵפָֽה) 'a.ye.Fah “a weary [animal]”

  17. Jeremiah 31:25

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

    עֲיֵפָ֑ה 'a.ye.Fah “[the] weary”