Faint
עָיֵףStrong’s H5889ayeph (a-yeph)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayeph is the Hebrew word usually translated “exhausted”, “weary” and “faint”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:”
Meaning
- Faint, exhausted, weary
How it's translated
- exhausted 7
- weary 4
- and weary 2
- a weary 1
- to the weary 1
- faint 1
- for a weary 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Genesis 2
- Judges 2
- 2 Samuel 2
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
- Deuteronomy 25:18How 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.
- Judges 8:4And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
- Judges 8:5And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
- 2 Samuel 16:14And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
- 2 Samuel 17:29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
Hebrew dictionary
עָיֵף ayeph · faint
faint, exhausted, weary
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.