Weary
יָעֵףStrong’s H3287yaeph (ya-eph)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaeph is the Hebrew word usually translated “weary”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?”
Meaning
- Faint, weary, fatigued
How it's translated
- weary 2
- the weary 1
- to the weary 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Judges 1
- 2 Samuel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 16:2And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
- Isaiah 40:29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
- Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Hebrew dictionary
יָעֵף yaeph · weary
faint, weary, fatigued
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.