Hebrew verb · H5888
עָיֵף
ayephaw-yafe'
be faint
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâyêph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5888is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5888
to languish
The King James renders it: be wearied.
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
ayeph is rendered "be faint". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 4:21But 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.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But 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.
Judges 4:21וַיָּ֖עַף
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
- and he was weary2
- and it was weary2
- it is weary1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָיֵף | ayeph | faint | Uses17 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- וַיָּ֖עַף2
- וַיָּ֥עַף2
- עָיְפָ֥ה1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3ms4Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
Judges
one use
But 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.
- וַיָּ֖עַףvaiyaafHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he was weary
1 Samuel
two uses
Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”
- וַיָּ֖עַףvaiyaafHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was weary
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
- וַיָּ֥עַףvaiyaafHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was weary
2 Samuel
one use
Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.
- וַיָּ֥עַףvaiyaafHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he was weary
Jeremiah
one use
For 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!”
- עָיְפָ֥הʾayefahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is 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.