יָאַשׁyâʼash

despair

Pronunciation: yaw-ash' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2976

Meanings

Niph`al: despair (1 Samuel 27:1; Jeremiah 2:25; Job 6:26)

Pi`el: to make, despair (Ecclesiastes 2:20)

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 27:1 But David kept thinking to himself, “Someday Saul is going to get me. The best thing I can do is escape to the Philistines. Then Saul will stop hunting for me in Israelite territory, and I will finally be safe.”
  • Job 6:26 Do you think your words are convincing when you disregard my cry of desperation?
  • Ecclesiastes 2:20 So I gave up in despair, questioning the value of all my hard work in this world.
  • Isaiah 57:10 You grew weary in your search, but you never gave up. Desire gave you renewed strength, and you did not grow weary.
  • Jeremiah 2:25 When will you stop running? When will you stop panting after other gods? But you say, ‘Save your breath. I’m in love with these foreign gods, and I can’t stop loving them now!’
  • Jeremiah 18:12 But the people replied, “Don’t waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires.”

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).