Ayeph עָיֵף

Ayeph (Hebrew עָיֵף, Strong's H5889) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “faint”. It occurs 17 times in 17 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Ayeph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 25:29
  And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
• Genesis 25:30
  And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 25:18
  How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

Judges

• Judges 8:4
  And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
• Judges 8:5
  And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 16:14
  And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived, exhausted. And there he refreshed himself.
• 2 Samuel 17:29
  And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Job

• Job 22:7
  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

Psalms

• Psalm 63:1
  O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
• Psalm 143:6
  I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

Proverbs

• Proverbs 25:25
  As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 5:27
  None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
• Isaiah 28:12
  To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
• Isaiah 29:8
  It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
• Isaiah 32:2
  And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
• Isaiah 46:1
  Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 31:25
  For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).