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# יָאַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2976

**despair** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

despair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2976/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָאַשׁ: vb. despair Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2976/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. despair (not in Qal) (NH Hithp. despair of, יֵאוּשׁ desperation; Aramaic Pa. יָאֵשׁ, etc., make despair (so 𝔗 Ec 2:20); Arabic يَىِٔسَ despair)— Pf. וְנוֹאַש consec. 1 S 27:1; Pt. נוֹאָשׁ Je 2:25 + 3 times;—despair, וְנ׳ מִמֶּנִּי שָׁאוּל לְבַקְּשֵׁנִי 1 S 27:1 and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me; pt. desperate, despairing, of Job, Jb 6:26; elsewhere נוֹאָ֑שׁ (foll. אמר) desperate! = there is no hope! Je 2:25; 18:12 Is 57:10. Inf. לְיַאֵשׁ אֶת־לִבִּי עַל כָּל־הֶעָמָל Ec 2:20 to make my heart despair, concerning all the toil.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: despairing (3); he will desist (1); make despair (1).

## In the verses

[Job 6:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.26/#tree)

הַלְהוֹכַ֣ח מִלִּ֣ים תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ אִמְרֵ֥י נֹאָֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* ? to reprove words do.you.plan and to wind \[the\].words of.\[one.who\].despairs

*JPS 1917:* Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?

[Isaiah 57:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.10/#tree)

בְּרֹ֤ב דַּרְכֵּךְ֙ יָגַ֔עַתְּ לֹ֥א אָמַ֖רְתְּ נוֹאָ֑שׁ חַיַּ֤ת יָדֵךְ֙ מָצָ֔את עַל־כֵּ֖ן לֹ֥א חָלִֽית׃

*Word for word:* with the.greatness your.journey your you.became.weary not you.said despairing the.life your.hand your you.found therefore not you.became.weak

*JPS 1917:* Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet saidst thou not: 'There is no hope'; thou didst find a renewal of thy strength, therefore thou wast not affected.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2976.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2976/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).