Weariness
יְעָףStrong’s H3288yeaph (ye-aph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yeaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “weariness”. It appears in 1 verse 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
- Weariness, fatigue, faintness
How it's translated
- with weariness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
יְעָף yeaph · weariness
weariness, fatigue, faintness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weariness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEARINESS, noun
[from weary.]
- The state of being weary or tired; that lassitude or exhaustion of strength which is induced by labor; fatigue.
- Lassitude; uneasiness proceeding from continued waiting, disappointed expectation or exhausted patience, or from other cause.
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.