Weary
יָגִיעַStrong’s H3019yagia (ya-gi-a)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yagia is the Hebrew word usually translated “weary of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.”
Meaning
- Weary, tired
How it's translated
- weary of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
יָגִיעַ yagia · weary
weary, tired
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weary” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEARY, adjective
- Having the strength much exhausted by toil or violent exertion; tired; fatigued. [It should be observed however that this word expresses less than tired, particularly when applied to a beast; as a tired horse.
- Having the patience exhausted, or the mind yielding to discouragement.
- Causing weariness; tiresome; as a weary way; a weary life.
All definitions and other forms of “weary”
WEARY, verb transitive
[from the adjective.]
- To reduce or exhaust the physical strength of the body; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary ones self with labor or traveling.“The people shall weary themselves for very vanity” Habakkuk 2:13
- To make impatient of continuance.
- To harass by any thing irksome; as, to be wearied of waiting for the arrival of the post.
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.