Be faint
עִיףStrong’s H5888ayeph (a-yeph)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayeph is the Hebrew word usually translated “was weary”, “it was weary” and “it is weary”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.”
Meaning
- To be faint, be weary(Qal) to be faint, be weary
How it's translated
- and he was weary 2
- and it was weary 2
- it is weary 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- Judges 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 14:28Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
- 1 Samuel 14:31And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
- 2 Samuel 21:15Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
- Jeremiah 4:31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Hebrew dictionary
עִיף ayeph · be faint
1) to be faint, be weary 1a) (Qal) to be faint, be weary
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.