To faint
יָעֵףStrong’s H3286yaaph (ya-aph)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “grow weary”, “grows weary” and “may grow weary”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.”
Meaning
- To be or grow weary, be fatigued, be faint(Qal) to be or grow weary, be fatigued, be faint · (Hophal) wearied (participle)
How it's translated
- they will grow weary 2
- he grows weary 1
- and they may grow weary 1
- and he grew weary 1
- and they grow weary 1
- and they will grow weary 1
- wearied 1
- they grow weary 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Jeremiah 3
- Daniel 1
- Habakkuk 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 40:28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
- Isaiah 40:30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
- Isaiah 40:31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
- Isaiah 44:12The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
- Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
- Jeremiah 51:58Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Hebrew dictionary
יָעֵף yaaph · to faint
1) to be or grow weary, be fatigued, be faint 1a) (Qal) to be or grow weary, be fatigued, be faint 1b) (Hophal) wearied (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “faint” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FAINT, adjective
[Latin vanus, whence to vanish. Eng. to wane.]
- weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, to be rendered faint by excessive evacuations.
- Weak; feeble; languid; exhausted; as faint with fatigue, hunger or thirst.
- Weak, as color; not bright or vivid; not strong; as a faint color; a faint red or blue; a faint light.
- Feeble; weak, as sound; not loud; as a faint sound; a faint voice.
All definitions and other forms of “faint”
- Imperfect; feeble; not striking; as a faint resemblance or image.
- Cowardly; timorous.
- Feeble; not vigorous; not active; as a faint resistance; a faint exertion.
- Dejected; depressed; dispirited.“My heart is faint” Lamentations 1:22
FAINT, verb intransitive
- To lose the animal functions; to lose strength and color, and become senseless and motionless; to swoon; sometimes with away. he fainted for loss of blood.
- To become feeble; to decline or fail in strength and vigor; to be weak.“If I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way” Mark 8:3
- To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit.“Let not your hearts faint” Deuteronomy 20:3“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small” Proverbs 24:10
- To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
FAINT, verb transitive
To deject; to depress; to weaken. [Unusual.]
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.