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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H2976 — יָאַשׁ
ya.ash · to despair · Hebrew/Aramaic
6 tagged verse occurrences
1 Samuel 27:1 · וְנוֹאַ֨שׁDavid, 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.”Job 6:26 · נֹאָֽשׁ׃Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?Ecclesiastes 2:20 · לְיַאֵ֣שׁSo my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.Isaiah 57:10 · נוֹאָ֑שׁYou 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.Jeremiah 2:25 · נוֹאָ֔שׁYou 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.’Jeremiah 18:12 · נוֹאָ֑שׁBut 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.’”