Word Study · Strong's H5888 · Hebrew

עָיֵף

ayeph

aw-yafe'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻâyêph

“to languish”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

to languish

Rendered in the KJV as

be wearied.

5
occurrencesin the Old Testament
4 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
3
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 5 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 3

וַיָּ֖עַף2
וַיָּ֥עַף2
עָיְפָ֥ה1

How it is rendered · 3

and he was weary2
and it was weary2
it is weary1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

Hc/Vqw3ms4
verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singular1

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Hc/Vqw3ms · 4
HVqp3fs · 1

All 5, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

1 Samuel2 of 5 · 40%
Judges1 of 5 · 20%
2 Samuel1 of 5 · 20%
Jeremiah1 of 5 · 20%

1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Judges1 occurrence

Judges 4:21וַיָּ֖עַףvaiyaafHc/Vqw3msBut as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.here: and he was weary

1 Samuel2 occurrences

2 Samuel1 occurrence

2 Samuel 21:15וַיָּ֥עַףvaiyaafHc/Vqw3msOnce again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.here: and he was weary

Jeremiah1 occurrence

Jeremiah 4:31עָיְפָ֥הʾayefahverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singularFor I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”here: it is weary

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled עָיֵף

H5889 · 17×

עָיֵף

ayeph

“languid”

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