Hebrew verb · H3021
יָגַע
yagayaw-gah'
be weary/toil
26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâgaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3021is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 25spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3021
properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil
The King James renders it: faint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.
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
yaga is rendered "be weary/toil". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 7:3On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.
The first use
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
Joshua 7:3תְּיַגַּע־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- you have labored3
- I have become weary2
- and they may labor1
- did we weary1
- he becomes weary1
- I am weary1
- I have labored1
- I have made weary you1
- it was weary1
- it wearies him1
- so they may become weary1
- so they may labor1
and 11 more, 26 uses in all
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יָגַב | yagab | to till | Uses2 |
All 26, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
25 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
- יָגַ֖עַתְּ2
- אִיגָֽע׃1
- הוֹגָ֑עְנוּ1
- הוֹגַעְתִּ֖יךָ1
- הוֹגַעְתֶּ֤ם1
- הוֹגַעְתַּ֖נִי1
- וְיִֽגְע֨וּ1
- וְיִגָ֑עוּ1
- וְיִֽיגְע֤וּ1
- יָגְעָ֣ה1
- יָגַ֖עְנוּ1
- יָגַ֣עְתָּ1
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular4HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular4HVqp2fs
- HC/Vqu3mp3HC/Vqu3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural1HVhp1cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhp1cs/Sp2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhp2mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhp2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3fs/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpj2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
Joshua
two uses
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
- תְּיַגַּע־teyaga'-verb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you make go wearily
So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’
- יָגַ֣עְתָּyaga'taverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you had labored
2 Samuel
one use
but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.
- יָגְעָ֣הyageahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was weary
Job
one use
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
- אִיגָֽע׃ʾiga'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I labor
Psalms
two uses
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- יָגַ֤עְתִּי׀yaga'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have become weary
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- יָגַ֣עְתִּיyaga'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have become weary
Proverbs
one use
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- תִּיגַ֥עtiga'verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you labor
Ecclesiastes
one use
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
- תְּיַגְּעֶ֑נּוּteyaggeenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it wearies him
Isaiah
twelve uses
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
- יִיגָ֑עyiga'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he becomes weary
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
- וְיִגָ֑עוּveyigauHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may become weary
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- יִיגָ֔עוּyigauverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will become weary
But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
- יָגַ֥עְתָּyaga'taverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have grown weary
You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
- הוֹגַעְתִּ֖יךָhoga'tikhaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have made weary you
You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
- הוֹגַעְתַּ֖נִיhoga'taniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have made weary me
So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
- יָגַ֖עַתְּyagaatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have labored
This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.
- יָגָ֑עַתְּyagaatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have labored
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
- יָגַ֔עְתִּיyaga'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have labored
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.
- יָגַ֔עַתְּyagaatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you became weary
The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
- יָגַ֖עַתְּyagaatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have labored
They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
- יִֽיגְעוּ֙yigeuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will labor
Jeremiah
two uses
You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”
- יָגַ֙עְתִּי֙yaga'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am weary
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
- וְיִֽגְע֨וּveyiguHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may labor
Lamentations
one use
We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
- יָגַ֖עְנוּyaga'nuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have become weary
Habakkuk
one use
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
- וְיִֽיגְע֤וּveyigeuHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may labor
Malachi
two uses
You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
- הוֹגַעְתֶּ֤םhoga'temverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have wearied
- הוֹגָ֑עְנוּhogaenuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: did we weary
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.
