Weary
יָגֵעַStrong’s H3023yagea (ya-ge-a)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yagea is the Hebrew word usually translated “weary” and “wearisome”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Weary, wearisome
How it's translated
- and weary 1
- weary 1
- wearisome 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 17:2And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
- Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Hebrew dictionary
יָגֵעַ yagea · weary
weary, wearisome
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.