יָגַע
yâgaʻ · H3021 · Hebrew · 26 occurrences
Meanings
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to grow weary, to wear oneself out, to labor, to toil
Action by which humans are engaged in laborious activity which requires a lot of energy and ultimately results in exhaustion
ExamplesJoshua 24:13 ‘And I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’
Joshua 7:3 Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up; have only about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not trouble all the people there, for they are few.”
2 Samuel 23:10 He rose up and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary and it clung to the sword, and the LORD brought about a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to plunder the dead.
How it’s used In 7 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
26 occurrences in 9 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 9
- Not stated: I 6
- Not stated: they 3
- Other words · 6 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- עַםpeople 1
- נִיme 1
- ךָּyou 1
- וֹhim 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
17 occurrences in 14 groups
- Other words · 14 groups that occur once or twice (17) 17
With adverbsAdverbs
7 occurrences in 3 groups
- לֹאnot 5
- אַלnot, do not 2
- שָׁםthere 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סָחַרmerchant, to trade 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- κοπιάω kopiáō · G2872 · hard work, toil, to work hard
- Greek κοπιάω emphasizes the experience of labor-induced fatigue and the active process of working hard, while Hebrew יָגַע encompasses both the resultant state of weariness and the causative action of laboring or making weary.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Weak002001001069
- יָגַע describes becoming weary or faint, a depletion of strength through labor or exertion, used throughout the Psalms and Prophets of both physical and spiritual exhaustion.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3021. yaga or yagea יָגַע יָגֵעַ verb toil, grow or be weary (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian…
or yagea יָגַע יָגֵעַ verb toil, grow or be weary (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian êgû, grow weary DlPr 140; Arabic have pain, suffer) —
Qal Perfect יָגְָֽעָה 2Sa 23:10; יָגַעְתָּ Jos 24:13; Isa 43:22 יָ֫גַעַתְּ Isa 47:12 Isa 47:2t.; יָנָ֑עַתְּ Isa 47:15; יָגַ֫עְתִּי Psa 6:7 Psa 6:3t יָגַ֫עְנוּ Lam 5:5;Imperfect יִינָ֑ע Isa 40:28; Isa 40:2masculine singular תִּיגַע Pro 23:4; אִיגָ֑ע Job 9:29; יִיגְעוּ Hab 2:13; יִגְָֽעוּ Jer 51:58; Isa 65:23; יִיגָ֑עוּ Isa 40:31; יִגָ֑עוּ Isa 40:30: —
1 toil, labour for (בְּ), Jos 24:13 (D), Isa 62:8; followed by accusative (אשׁר) Isa 47:15; followed by בְּ instrumental Isa 47:12; absolute Isa 49:4 (לְרִיק, || כִלֵּיתִי כֹּחִי וְהֶבֶל), compare Isa 65:23; Jer 51:58 (|| יעף), Hab 2:13 (|| ), Lam 5:5 (|| לֹאהֿוּנַּתלָֿ֑נוּ), Job 9:29 followed by below Pro 23:4
2 grow or be weary, from toil, exertion, endurance, 2Sa 23:10 (omitted by accident in || 1Ch 11:13 see Dr); weary of, followed by בְּ, Psa 6:7; Psa 69:4; Isa 43:22; Isa 57:10; Jer 45:3; absolute Isa 40:28, Isa 40:30, Isa 40:31 (in all || יעף).
Pi`el Imperfect3feminine singular suffix 3 masculine singular תְּיַגְּעֶנּוּ Ecc 10:15 weary, make weary, subject הכסילים עֲמַל; 2 masculine singular תְּיַגַּע cause to go toilsomely Jos 7:3, followed byaccusative
Hiph`il Perfect2masculine singular suffix הוֺגַעְתַּנִי Isa 43:24; הוֺגַעְתִּיךָ Isa 43:23; plural הוֺגַעְתֶּם Mal 2:17; הוֺגָ֑עְנוּ Mal 2:17; — make to toil (always with בְּ instrumental), with accusative of person make to toil, weary Isa 43:23 (|| העביד), object ׳י Isa 43:24 (weary, figurative), and so Mal 2:17 (twice in verse).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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