H5888 עָיֵף (ʻâyêph) aw-yafe'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

be faint

Strong's Definition

to languish

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: be wearied.

TWOT Reference: 1614a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to be faint, be weary

1a) (Qal) to be faint, be weary

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1372 G1587 G2872 G3983

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עִיף (a.yeph) — be faint. 1) to be faint, be weary 1a) (Qal) to be faint, be weary

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עיף (H5888)

verb · עָיֵף · עֵיפָה · עֵיפַי

Weak | verb qal

to become weary, to become faint = process by which humans lose their strength as a result of a prolonged period of exertion and the need for food, drink and rest

JDG 4:21 · 1SA 14:28 · 1SA 14:31 · 2SA 21:15 · JER 4:31

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[עִיף] vb. be faint base

Bible Occurrences (5)

4:21

14:28 14:31

21:15

4:31

Judges 4:21

But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer..., and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple [and] into the ground, and he died.

1 Samuel 14:28

Then one of the soldiers told him, Your father {bound} the troops... with a solemn oath, saying, Cursed is the man who eats food today. That is why the people are faint.”

1 Samuel 14:31

That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.

2 Samuel 21:15

Once again... the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants... went down and fought against the Philistines. But David became exhausted.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child — the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands [to say], Woe is me..., for my soul faints before the murderers!