Ayeph עִיף
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| עִיף | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | ayeph |
| Strong's number | H5888 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Gloss | be faint |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | 1 Samuel (2) |
Ayeph (Hebrew עִיף, Strong's H5888) is a Hebrew verb meaning “be faint”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) to be faint, be weary
1a) (Qal) to be faint, be weary
1a) (Qal) to be faint, be weary
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | wearied (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | exhaustion (1), are faint (1), faint (1), became exhausted (1), faints (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Ayeph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Judges
- Judges 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.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
- 1 Samuel 14:28Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.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 14:31And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 21:15Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.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
- Jeremiah 4:31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.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!”
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).