Strong’s H2976 · Hebrew
יָאַשׁ
yâʼash · yaw-ash'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
In the King James Version (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Samuel 27:1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
- Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- Ecclesiastes 2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
- Isaiah 57:10Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
- Jeremiah 2:25Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
- Jeremiah 18:12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.