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יָאַשׁ

yâʼash · H2976 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to give up, to consider useless, to consider hopeless

    Process by which someone resigns to being unable to change a situation, and gives up trying to do so

    Examples

    1 Samuel 27:1 Then David said to himself, “Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to safely escape into the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

    Isaiah 57:10 “You were tired out by the length of your road, Yet you did not say, ‘It is hopeless!’ You found renewed strength, Therefore you did not faint.

    Ecclesiastes 2:20 Therefore I completely despaired over all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 3 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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יָאַשׁ describes despairing or giving up hope, an abandonment of the will to continue, as David's calculation that Saul would despair of searching for him (1 Samuel 27:1) and Qoheleth's despairing over the fruit of his labor (Ecclesiastes 2:20).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2976. yaash [יָאַשׁ] verb despair (not in Qal) (Late Hebrew Hithpa`el despair of,…
H2976. yaash
[יָאַשׁ] verb despair (not in
Qal) (Late Hebrew Hithpa`el despair of, יֵאוּשׁ desperation; Aramaic Pa`el יָאֵשׁ, etc., make despair (so ᵑ7 Ecc 2:20); Arabic despair) —
Niph`al Perfect וְנוֺאַש consecutive 1Sa 27:1; Participle נוֺאָשׁ Jer 2:25 Jer 2:3t.; — despair, לְבַקְּשֵׁנִי ׳וְנ שָׁאוּל מִמֶּנִּי 1Sa 27:1 and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me; participle desperate, despairing, of Job, Job 6:26; elsewhere נוֺאָ֑שׁ (following אמר) desperate! = there is no hope! Jer 2:25; Jer 18:12; Isa 57:10.
Pi`el Infinitive כָּלהֶֿעָמָל עַל אֶתלִֿבִּי לְיַאֵשׁ Ecc 2:20 to make my heart despair, concerning all the toil.
יאֹשִׁיָּה יאֹשִׁיָּ֫הוּ, see below אשׁה above

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Willing6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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