Occurrences
ʻâyêph occurs 17 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (2), 2 Samuel (2), Job (1), Psalms (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (1)
- Genesis 25:29 — And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint (עָיֵֽף):
- Genesis 25:30 — And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint (עָיֵ֖ף): therefore was his name called Edom.
- Deuteronomy 25:18 — How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint (עָיֵ֣ף) and weary; and he feared not God.
- Judges 8:4 — And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint (עֲיֵפִ֖ים), yet pursuing them.
- Judges 8:5 — 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 (עֲיֵפִ֣ים), and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
- 2 Samuel 16:14 — And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary (עֲיֵפִ֑ים), and refreshed themselves there.
- 2 Samuel 17:29 — 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 (וְעָיֵ֥ף), and thirsty, in the wilderness.
- Job 22:7 — Thou hast not given water to the weary (עָיֵ֣ף) to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
- Psalms 63:1 — 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 (וְעָיֵ֣ף) land, where no water is;
- Psalms 143:6 — I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty (עֲיֵפָ֖ה) land. Selah.
- Proverbs 25:25 — As cold waters to a thirsty (עֲיֵפָ֑ה) soul, so is good news from a far country.
- Isaiah 5:27 — None shall be weary (עָיֵ֤ף) 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:
- Isaiah 28:12 — To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary (לֶֽעָיֵ֔ף) to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
- Isaiah 29:8 — 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 (עָיֵ֔ף), and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
- Isaiah 32:2 — 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 (עֲיֵפָֽה) land.
- Isaiah 46:1 — 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 (לַעֲיֵפָֽה) beast.
- Jeremiah 31:25 — For I have satiated the weary (עֲיֵפָ֑ה) soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.