Hebrew word · H5888
עִיף
vaiya'af
be faint
Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.
What it means
1) to be faint, be weary
1a) (Qal) to be faint, be weary
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Similar words
Where it appears
Judges · 1
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Judges 4:21 וַיָּ֖עַף and he was weary
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 · 2
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1 Samuel 14:28 וַיָּ֖עַף and it was weary
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.”
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1 Samuel 14:31 וַיָּ֥עַף and it was weary
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
2 Samuel · 1
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2 Samuel 21:15 וַיָּ֥עַף and he was weary
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 · 1
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Jeremiah 4:31 עָיְפָ֥ה it is weary
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!”
Here: Spent and drained, like someone collapsing from thirst or exertion. The verb form presents her collapse as already happening.
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