Word

יָעַף

yâʻaph · H3286 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

to grow faint, to grow weary

Process by which humans become weak as a result of an extended period of activity

Examples
Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 40:30 Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly,
Isaiah 40:31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.

How it’s used In 3 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

8 occurrences in 6 groups

Not stated: they 3
בָּקַשׁto seek, to search, to look for 1
לְאֹםpeople 1
אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1
נַעַרyoung man, servant, boy 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with+ דַּיsufficiency 1

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 3

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 2 entries

Weak002001001069: יָעַף means to grow weary or faint, as even 'youths grow weary and tired' while those who wait on the LORD gain new strength (Isaiah 40:28-31).
Move002002001012: יָעַף also extends to soaring or flying, tied to the image of mounting up with wings like eagles once weariness is exchanged for renewed strength (Isaiah 40:31).

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָעַףyâʻaph · H3286יָעֵף yâʻêph · H3287 · faint, weary · 4×תּוֹעָפָה tôwʻâphâh · H8443 · heights, tops, peaks · 4×יְעָף yᵉʻâph · H3288 · flight · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3286. yaeph I. [יָעֵף] verb be weary, faint (Arabic run and shew weariness) — Qal…

H3286. yaeph
I. [יָעֵף] verb be weary, faint (Arabic run and shew weariness) —
Qal Perfect וְיָעֵ֑פוּ consecutive Jer 51:58, Jer 51:64; Imperfect יִיעַף Isa 40:28; וַיִּעָ֑ף Isa 44:12; יִָֽעֲפוּ Isa 40:30; יִיעָ֑פוּ Isa 40:31; Jer 2:24; יִעָ֑פוּ Hab 2:13; — be or grow weary Jer 2:24 (in seeking); = exhaust onself fruitlessly Hab 2:13 (|| יגע), hence Jer 51:58, Jer 51:64 (repeated by error from Jer 51:58); of ׳י (negative) Isa 40:28 (|| יגע); youth Isa 40:30 (|| id.); the god-fearing Isa 40:31 (|| id.); be faint from lack of water Isa 44:12 (|| כֹּחַ אֵין from hunger).
Hoph`al Participle wearied Dan 9:21 בִּיעָף מֻעָף (see יְעָף).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Weak8 occurrences Move0 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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0