Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
faint
Usage: faint, exhausted, weary
Ayeph means “languid” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5889 עָיֵף (`ayeph) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `ayeph (aw-yafe') adj. 1. languid [from H5888] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include weary, faint, thirsty, and am. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`ayeph (aw-yafe') adj. 1. languid [from H5888] KJV: faint, thirsty, weary. Root(s): H5888
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faint
Usage: faint, exhausted, weary
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `ayeph, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5889.
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5889, grouped by book.
Ayeph (Strong's H5889) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "languid". `ayeph (aw-yafe') adj. 1. languid [from H5888]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H5889 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5889 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as weary, faint, thirsty, and am. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.