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# יָגֵעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3023

**weary** — used 3 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

weary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3023/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָגֵעַ²: adj. weary, wearisome [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3023/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. weary, wearisome;—יָגֵעַ Dt 25:18 weary (‖ עָיֵף); 2 S 17:2 (‖ רְפֵה יָדַיִם); כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים יְגֵעִים Ec 1:8 all things are wearisome (‘full of labour’).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] wearisome (1); \[will be\] weary (1); weary (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.8/#tree)

כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים יְגֵעִ֔ים לֹא־יוּכַ֥ל אִ֖ישׁ לְדַבֵּ֑ר לֹא־תִשְׂבַּ֥ע עַ֙יִן֙ לִרְא֔וֹת וְלֹא־תִמָּלֵ֥א אֹ֖זֶן מִשְּׁמֹֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* all (the) things \[are\].wearisome not he.is.able anyone to speak.\[them\] not it.is.satisfied an.eye by seeing and not it.is.filled an.ear from hearing

*JPS 1917:* All things toil to weariness; man cannot utter it, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

[Deuteronomy 25:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.18/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָֽרְךָ֜ בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְ וַיְזַנֵּ֤ב בְּךָ֙ כָּל־הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִ֣ים אַֽחַרֶ֔יךָוְאַתָּ֖ה עָיֵ֣ף וְיָגֵ֑עַ וְלֹ֥א יָרֵ֖א אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (cmp) it met.you on the way and it.attacked.in.the.rear among you all \[those who.were\].straggling behind you and you \[were\].exhausted and weary and not it.feared God

*JPS 1917:* how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3023.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3023/): 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).