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יָאַשׁyâʼash/yaw-ash'/
HebrewH29767 occurrences (KJV)

to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond

KJV renders it: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.

Where it appears(showing the first 6 of 7)

  • 1 Sam 27:1David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”
  • Job 6:26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
  • Eccl 2:20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
  • Isa 57:10You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint.
  • Jer 2:25“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’
  • Jer 18:12But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.