יָגֵעַ yaga
Hebrew word for “be weary/toil” · Strong’s H3021 · used 26 times in 25 verses
Meaning
1) to toil, labour, grow weary, be weary;
How it is translated
Glosses given for yaga in context, with how often each is used:
- have labored 4
- have become weary 3
- weary 2
- have made weary 2
- may labor 2
- make go wearily 1
- had labored 1
- will i labor 1
- labor 1
- wearies 1
- becomes weary 1
- may become weary 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 12 | 0.7 | |
| Joshua | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Malachi | 2 | 2.3 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6 | |
| Habakkuk | 1 | 1.5 |
Chapters where it is used most
Isaiah 40 (3), Isaiah 43 (3), Isaiah 47 (2), Joshua 7 (1), Joshua 24 (1), 2 Samuel 23 (1), Job 9 (1), Psalms 6 (1), Psalms 69 (1), Proverbs 23 (1)
Forms
- יגעת 6
- יגעתי 4
- תיגע 2
- ויגעו 2
- ייגעו 2
- יגעה 1
- איגע 1
- תיגענו 1
- ייגע 1
- הוגעתיך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yaga more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָעֵף yaaph “to faint” 5
- רִיק riq “vain” 4
- אֲנָחָה anachah “sighing” 2
- לְאֹם leom “people” 2
- נִי ni “me” 4
- דַּי day “sufficiency” 2
- נְעוּרִים naur “youth” 2
- הֶבֶל hevel “vanity” 2
- כֹּחַ koach “strength” 2
- רֹב rov “abundance” 2
- אֵת et “with” 3
- זֶבַח zevach “sacrifice” 2
Key verses
The verses using yaga that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Psalms 6:6 — I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 69:3 — I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Isaiah 40:28 — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no…
- Isaiah 40:31 — But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,…
- Isaiah 43:24 — Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou…
- Isaiah 47:12 — Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit,…
- Isaiah 49:4 — Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
- Isaiah 62:8 — The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the…
- Isaiah 65:23 — They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
- Jeremiah 45:3 — Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
- Habakkuk 2:13 — Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
- Malachi 2:17 — Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and…
See all 25 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.