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# עיף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5888

**be faint** — used 5 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

be faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5888/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִיף²: vb. be faint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5888/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be faint (cf. Syriac ܥܳܦ 3, PS2835; ‖ form of יעף q.v.; occurrences dub.);— Pf. 3 fs. עָֽיְפָה נַפְשִׁי לְ Je 4:31 (? read עֲיֵפָה); Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּ֫עַף Ju 4:21 (וְיָעֵף GFM Bu), 1 S 14:28 (del. We Bu Kit Löhr, emend. HPS), v 31 (read וַיִּעַף \[√ יעף\] Buhl HPS), 2 S 21:15 (corrupt, HPS; for Philist. name We Dr Bu Kit).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he was weary (2); it was weary (2); it is weary (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 14:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.31/#tree)

וַיַּכּ֞וּ בַּיּ֤וֹם הַהוּא֙ בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים מִמִּכְמָ֖שׂ אַיָּלֹ֑נָה וַיָּ֥עַף הָעָ֖ם מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and they.defeated on the day (the) that (in) the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon and it.was.weary the people exceedingly

*JPS 1917:* And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmas to Aijalon; and the people were very faint.

[2 Samuel 21:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.15/#tree)

וַתְּהִי־ע֧וֹד מִלְחָמָ֛ה לַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֵּ֨רֶד דָּוִ֜ד וַעֲבָדָ֥יו עִמּ֛וֹ וַיִּלָּחֲמ֥וּ אֶת־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים וַיָּ֥עַף דָּוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* and it.belonged again war to the Philistines with Israel and he.went.down David and servants his with him and they.fought with \[the\].Philistines and he.was.weary David

*JPS 1917:* And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines; and David waxed faint.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5888.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5888/): 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).