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# יָעֵף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3287

**weary** — used 4 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/1497/3287/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָעֵף²: adj. weary, faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3287/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. weary, faint;—always as subst., except Ju 8:15 אנשׁיך הַיְּעֵפִים (of physical fatigue from lack of bread); הַיָּעֵף 2 S 16:2 (from lack of drink); of mind and spirit Is 40:29 (‖ אֵין אוֹנִים), 50:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[person\] (2); \[the\] weary (1); weary (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.29/#tree)

נֹתֵ֥ן לַיָּעֵ֖ף כֹּ֑חַ וּלְאֵ֥ין אוֹנִ֖ים עָצְמָ֥ה יַרְבֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].giving to the.weary \[person\] strength and to not strength(s) power he.increases

*JPS 1917:* He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might He increaseth strength.

[Isaiah 50:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.4/#tree)

אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֗ה נָ֤תַן לִי֙ לְשׁ֣וֹן לִמּוּדִ֔ים לָדַ֛עַת לָע֥וּת אֶת־יָעֵ֖ף דָּבָ֑ר יָעִ֣יר ׀ בַּבֹּ֣קֶר בַּבֹּ֗קֶר יָעִ֥יר לִי֙ אֹ֔זֶן לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ כַּלִּמּוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Lord \[the\] Yahweh he.has.given to me a.tongue of.disciples to know to help (et) \[the\].weary a.word he.awakens in the morning in the morning he.awakens my ear to hear like (the) disciples

*JPS 1917:* The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary; He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3287.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3287/): 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).