Occurrences
ʻâyêph occurs 3 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (2), Jeremiah (1)
- 1 Samuel 14:28 — Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint (וַיָּ֖עַף).
- 1 Samuel 14:31 — And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint (וַיָּ֥עַף).
- Jeremiah 4:31 — For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied (עָיְפָ֥ה) because of murderers.