Hebrew verb · H3286
יָעַף
yaaphyaw-af'
to faint
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâʻaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3286is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3286
to tire (as if from wearisome flight)
The King James renders it: faint, cause to fly, (be) weary (self).
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
yaaph is rendered "to faint". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 40:28Do 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.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
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 40:28יִיעַ֖ף
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
- they will grow weary2
- and he grew weary1
- and they grow weary1
- and they may grow weary1
- and they will grow weary1
- he grows weary1
- they grow weary1
- wearied1
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 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- וַיִּיעָֽף׃1
- וְיִֽעֲפ֥וּ1
- וְיָעֵ֑פוּ1
- וְיָעֵֽפוּ׃ ס1
- יִיעַ֖ף1
- יִיעָ֔פוּ1
- יִיעָֽפוּ׃ פ1
- יִעָֽפוּ׃1
- מֻעָ֣ף1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqi3mp
- Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
- HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singular1HVHsmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
Isaiah
four 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.
- יִיעַ֖ףyiafverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he grows weary
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
- וְיִֽעֲפ֥וּveyiafuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may grow 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.
- יִיעָֽפוּ׃ פyiafuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will grow weary
The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
- וַיִּיעָֽף׃vaiyiafHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew weary
Jeremiah
three uses
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
- יִיעָ֔פוּyiafuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will grow 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.”
- וְיָעֵֽפוּ׃ סveyaefuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they grow weary
Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
- וְיָעֵ֑פוּveyaefuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will grow weary
Daniel
one use
while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
- מֻעָ֣ףmuafverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: wearied
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?
- יִעָֽפוּ׃yiafuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they grow weary
The letters
Gematria 160· 880 mispar gadol
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.