יָעַף
yâʻaph · yaw-af'
to tire (as if from wearisome flight)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to tire (as if from wearisome flight)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: faint, cause to fly, (be) weary (self).
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to see and know › to speak, the word
The hand that works that works to see and know that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָעַף above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- fainteth1 · 11%
- shall faint1 · 11%
- and not faint1 · 11%
- and is faint1 · 11%
- her will not weary1 · 11%
- and they shall be weary1 · 11%
- upon her: and they shall be weary1 · 11%
- being caused to fly1 · 11%
- shall weary1 · 11%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.