TBESH · H2976
יָאַשׁ · ya.ash · to despair
1) to despair 1a) (Niphal) to be despaired, be desperate 1b) (Piel) to cause to despair interj 2) it is hopeless!
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ya.ash H2976
יָאַשׁ (ya.ash) means “to despair” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
יָאַשׁ Hebrew · H2976 6 tagged occurrences in 6 verses
Pronunciation guide: yaw-ash' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
KJV glosses: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
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How translators render H2976
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| it is hopeless | 2 |
| of despair | 1 |
| there is no hope | 1 |
| to despair | 1 |
| will stop | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| there is no hope | 2 |
| of one that is desperate | 1 |
| shall despair | 1 |
| thou not there is no hope | 1 |
| to cause | 1 |
| to despair | 1 |
Verses containing H2976
Page 1 of 1. 6 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- 1 Samuel 27:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
Read word by word - Job 6:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 2:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
Read word by word - Isaiah 57:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 18:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
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