עָיֵף
ʻâyêph · aw-yafe'
languid
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5888 (עָיֵף);
languid
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: faint, thirsty, weary.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- 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)
to see and know › the hand that works › to speak, the word
To see and know of the hand that works that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָיֵף 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
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to the weary2 · 12%
- and he was faint1 · 6%
- pottage; for i am faint1 · 6%
- thee, when thou wast faint1 · 6%
- that were with him, faint1 · 6%
- me; for they be faint1 · 6%
- weary1 · 6%
- and weary1 · 6%
- and thirsty1 · 6%
- thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty1 · 6%
- to a thirsty1 · 6%
- none shall be weary1 · 6%
- wherewith ye may cause the weary1 · 6%
- and, behold, he is faint1 · 6%
- in a weary1 · 6%
- the weary1 · 6%
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.