Hebrew verb · H2976
יָאַשׁ
yaashyaw-ash'
to despair
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâʼash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2976is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2976
to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
The King James renders it: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
yaash is rendered "to despair". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 27:1David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
1 Samuel 27:1וְנוֹאַ֨שׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- despairing3
- and he will desist1
- despairs1
- to make despair1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נוֹאָ֑שׁ2
- וְנוֹאַ֨שׁ1
- לְיַאֵ֣שׁ1
- נֹאָֽשׁ׃1
- נוֹאָ֔שׁ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular4HVNrmsa
- Hc/VNq3ms1Hc/VNq3ms
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
1 Samuel
one use
David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
- וְנוֹאַ֨שׁvenoashHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will desist
Job
one use
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
- נֹאָֽשׁ׃noashverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despairs
Ecclesiastes
one use
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
- לְיַאֵ֣שׁleyaeshpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make despair
Isaiah
one use
You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
- נוֹאָ֑שׁnoashverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despairing
Jeremiah
two uses
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
- נוֹאָ֔שׁnoashverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despairing
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- נוֹאָ֑שׁnoashverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despairing
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.