Hebrew adjective · H5889
עָיֵף
ayephaw-yafe'
faint
17 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 H5889is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5889
languid
The King James renders it: faint, thirsty, 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
ayeph is rendered "faint". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 25:29One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
Genesis 25:29עָיֵֽף׃
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
- exhausted7
- weary4
- and weary2
- a weary1
- faint1
- for a weary1
- to the 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 | be faint | Uses5 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- עָיֵ֣ף2
- עֲיֵפָ֑ה2
- וְעָיֵ֣ף1
- וְעָיֵ֥ף1
- לֶֽעָיֵ֔ף1
- לַעֲיֵפָֽה׃1
- עָיֵ֖ף1
- עָיֵ֤ף1
- עָיֵ֔ף1
- עָיֵֽף׃1
- עֲיֵפָ֖ה1
- עֲיֵפָֽה׃1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular6HAamsa
- adjective · feminine singular4HAafsa
- adjective · masculine plural3HAampa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular2HC/Aamsa
- preposition + adjective · feminine singular1HR/Aafsa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular1HRd/Aamsa
Genesis
two uses
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
- עָיֵֽף׃ʾayefadjective · masculine singulartagged: exhausted
He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
- עָיֵ֖ףʾayefadjective · masculine singulartagged: exhausted
Deuteronomy
one use
how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.
- עָיֵ֣ףʾayefadjective · masculine singulartagged: exhausted
Judges
two uses
Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
- עֲיֵפִ֖יםʾayefimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: exhausted
So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
- עֲיֵפִ֣יםʾayefimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: exhausted
2 Samuel
two uses
Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived, exhausted. And there he refreshed himself.
- עֲיֵפִ֑יםʾayefimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: exhausted
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
- וְעָיֵ֥ףveayefconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and weary
Job
one use
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
- עָיֵ֣ףʾayefadjective · masculine singulartagged: weary
Psalms
two uses
O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- וְעָיֵ֣ףveayefconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and weary
I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
- עֲיֵפָ֖הʾayefahadjective · feminine singulartagged: exhausted
Proverbs
one use
Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.
- עֲיֵפָ֑הʾayefahadjective · feminine singulartagged: weary
Isaiah
five uses
None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
- עָיֵ֤ףʾayefadjective · masculine singulartagged: a weary
to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
- לֶֽעָיֵ֔ףleayefpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the weary
as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
- עָיֵ֔ףʾayefadjective · masculine singulartagged: faint
Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
- עֲיֵפָֽה׃ʾayefahadjective · feminine singulartagged: weary
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- לַעֲיֵפָֽה׃laayefahpreposition + adjective · feminine singulartagged: for a weary
Jeremiah
one use
for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
- עֲיֵפָ֑הʾayefahadjective · feminine singulartagged: 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.