יָגֵעַ
ya.ga
be weary/toil
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word יָגֵעַ (ya.ga) appears 26 times in the Bible and is defined as "be weary/toil." This suggests that the word is often associated with physical exhaustion or mental fatigue, relating to the body's health. The frequency of its usage in the Bible highlights its significance to ancient Hebrew culture, likely reflecting a common experience shared by many. Since the linguistic domain of this word focuses on physical health, its occurrences often carry a straightforward meaning related to weariness or overexertion. The context in which it appears varies, but its core meaning remains consistent. This word's definition doesn't imply any abstract or metaphorical meaning; its range of usage tends to be tied directly to the physical consequences of labor, hardship, or other demanding activities.
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Occurrences in Scripture
26 total occurrences across the text
I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Psalms 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
Proverbs 23:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Ecclesiastes 10:15The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
Isaiah 40:28Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 40:30Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
Isaiah 40:31but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 43:22Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
Isaiah 43:23You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
Isaiah 43:24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.
Isaiah 47:12“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
Isaiah 47:15The things that you labored in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you.
Isaiah 49:4But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
Isaiah 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.
Isaiah 62:8Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,
Isaiah 65:23They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.
Jeremiah 45:3‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’
Jeremiah 51:58Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”
Lamentations 5:5Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
Habakkuk 2:13Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Malachi 2:17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
Malachi 2:17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
Joshua 7:3They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”
Joshua 24:13I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’
2 Samuel 23:10He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.