Quick Definition
to despair
Strong's Definition
to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
TWOT Reference: 833
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יָאַשׁ (ya.ash) — to despair. 1) to despair 1a) (Niphal) to be despaired, be desperate 1b) (Piel) to cause to despair interj 2) it is hopeless!
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · יֹאשִׁיָּה
Willing | verb nif
to give up, to consider useless, to consider hopeless = process by which someone resigns to being unable to change a situation, and gives up trying to do so
Willing | verb pi
to cause to despair, to cause to give in = process by which someone causes someone to accept the impossibility to change a situation
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[יָאַשׁ] vb. despair Niph. despair
Pi. to make my heart despair, concerning all the toil.
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