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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 25
    spellings

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

Twelve of the word's twenty-six uses are in Isaiah.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

יָגַבyagabto tillUses2

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.”

    Joshua 7:3

    • 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.’

    Joshua 24:13

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 23:10

    • 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?

    Job 9:29

    • 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.

    Psalms 6:6

    • 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.

    Psalms 69:3

    • 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.

    Proverbs 23:4

    • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 10:15

    • 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.

    Isaiah 40:28

    • 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.

    Isaiah 40:30

    • 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.

    Isaiah 40:31

    • 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.

    Isaiah 43:22

    • 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.

    Isaiah 43:23

    • 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.

    Isaiah 43:24

    • 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!

    Isaiah 47:12

    • 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.

    Isaiah 47:15

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 49:4

    • 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.

    Isaiah 57:10

    • 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.

    Isaiah 62:8

    • 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.

    Isaiah 65:23

    • 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.’”

    Jeremiah 45:3

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 51:58

    • וְיִֽגְע֨וּveyiguHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may labor

Lamentations

one use
  • We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

    Lamentations 5:5

    • 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?

    Habakkuk 2:13

    • 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?”

    Malachi 2:17

    • 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

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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