עָיֵףʻâyêph

be faint

Pronunciation: aw-yafe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5888

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 4:21 But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.
  • 1 Samuel 14:28 But one of the men saw him and said, “Your father made the army take a strict oath that anyone who eats food today will be cursed. That is why everyone is weary and faint.”
  • 1 Samuel 14:31 They chased and killed the Philistines all day from Micmash to Aijalon, growing more and more faint.
  • 2 Samuel 21:15 Once again the Philistines were at war with Israel. And when David and his men were in the thick of battle, David became weak and exhausted.
  • Jeremiah 4:31 I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor, the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child. It is beautiful Jerusalem gasping for breath and crying out, “Help! I’m being murdered!”

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).