Hebrew word · H3024

יְגִעָה

yegi'at

weariness

'Weariness, exhaustion', from yagaʿ, 'to toil, labour, become tired'. Related nouns mean 'toil' and 'what toil produces' (Ps 128:2).

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. · Updated October 21, 2026

What it means

a wearing, a tiring

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Range of meaning: 'Weariness, exhaustion', from yagaʿ, 'to toil, labour, become tired'. Related nouns mean 'toil' and 'what toil produces' (Ps 128:2).
Against the English: 'Weariness' (KJV, WEB, YLT) and 'wears out' (BSB) are accurate. 'Wears you out' (NLT) is idiomatic and fine.
Used elsewhere in the period: Qohelet uses the root at key points: 1:8, 'all things/words are wearisome (yegeʿim)'; 10:15, 'the toil of fools wearies them'.

Ecclesiastes · 1

Ecclesiastes 12:12 יְגִעַ֥ת [is] weariness of

And by these, my son, be further warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.

Here: 'A wearying' or 'exhaustion'. It comes from the root of toil and growing tired, which Ecclesiastes uses for labour that wears a person out. It echoes 1:8, 'all words are wearisome'.

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