To despair
יָאַשׁStrong’s H2976yaash (ya-ash)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaash is the Hebrew word usually translated “despairing”, “desist” and “despairs”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.”
Meaning
- To despair(Niphal) to be despaired, be desperate · (Piel) to cause to despair
- It is hopeless!
How it's translated
- despairing 3
- and he will desist 1
- despairs 1
- to make despair 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- Ecclesiastes 2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
- Isaiah 57:10Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
- Jeremiah 2:25Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
- Jeremiah 18:12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Hebrew dictionary
יָאַשׁ yaash · to despair
1) to despair 1a) (Niphal) to be despaired, be desperate 1b) (Piel) to cause to despair interj 2) it is hopeless!
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “despair” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESPAIR, noun
- Hopelessness; a hopeless state; a destitution of hope or expectation.“We are perplexed, but not in despair” 2 Corinthians 4:8
- That which causes despair; that of which there is no hope.
- Loss of hope in the mercy of God.
All definitions and other forms of “despair”
DESPAIR, verb intransitive
[Latin To hope.]
To be without hope; to hive up all hope or expectation; followed by of.
- “We despaired even of life” 2 Corinthians 1:8
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.