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Lexicon :: Strong's H5889 - ʿāyēp̄

Aa
עָיֵף
Transliteration
ʿāyēp̄
Pronunciation
aw-yafe'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1614a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: עיף.

Strong’s Definitions

עָיֵף ʻâyêph, aw-yafe'; from H5888; languid:—faint, thirsty, weary.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H5889 in the following manner: weary (8x), faint (6x), thirsty (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H5889 in the following manner: weary (8x), faint (6x), thirsty (3x).

  1. faint, exhausted, weary

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָיֵף ʻâyêph, aw-yafe'; from H5888; languid:—faint, thirsty, weary.
STRONGS H5889: Abbreviations
† עָיֵף adjective faint, weary; — ע׳ absolute Genesis 25:29 +; feminine עֲיֵפָה Jeremiah 31:25 +; plural עֲיֵפִים Judges 8:4 +; — from exertion and hunger Genesis 25:20, 30 (J), Judges 8:4, 5; Deuteronomy 25:18 (+ יָגֵעַ), compare Isaiah 5:27, הָנִיחוּ לֶע׳ Isaiah 28:12 (figurative), 2 Samuel 16:14 (si vera lectio, proper name, of a location needed, compare We Dr HPS); + רָעֵב, צָמֵא 2 Samuel 17:29; specifically from thirst Isaiah 29:8 (simile), Job 22:7, נֶפֶשׁ ע׳ Proverbs 25:25 and (figurative) Jeremiah 31:25 (|| דָּֽאֲבָה); hence אֶרֶץ צִיָּה וְעָיֵף Psalm 63:2 (figurative, on masculine see KöSynt. § 334 f.), compare Psalm 143:6 (simile), Isaiah 32:2 (opposed to צֵל, in simile); ע׳ that is beast Isaiah 46:1 — See also foregoing H5888.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:20; 25:29; 25:30

Deuteronomy

25:18

Judges

8:4; 8:4; 8:5

2 Samuel

16:14; 17:29

Job

22:7

Psalms

63:2; 143:6

Proverbs

25:25

Isaiah

5:27; 28:12; 29:8; 32:2; 46:1

Jeremiah

31:25; 31:25

H5889

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5889 matches the Hebrew עָיֵף (ʿāyēp̄),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 - Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:14 - And the king and his people came tired to Jordan, and took their rest there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29 - And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:7 - You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:6 - My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:25 - As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 - There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:12 - To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 - And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 - Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25 - For I have given new strength to the tired soul and to every sorrowing soul in full measure.
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