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title: יָגֵעַ — weary · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָגֵעַ (3023), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: weary. BDB 1906: adj. weary, wearisome. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָגֵעַ

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«יָגֵעַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **weary** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3023 · **BDB:** יָגֵעַ²

### Glosses

\[are\].wearisome (1); \[will.be\].weary (1); weary (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

weary [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3023/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. weary, wearisome [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3023/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. weary, wearisome;—יָגֵעַ Dt 25:18 weary (‖ עָיֵף); 2 S 17:2 (‖ רְפֵה יָדַיִם); כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים יְגֵעִים Ec 1:8 all things are wearisome (‘full of labour’).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָגֵעַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3023/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.8/)

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כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים יְגֵעִ֔ים לֹא־יוּכַ֥ל אִ֖ישׁ לְדַבֵּ֑ר לֹא־תִשְׂבַּ֥ע עַ֙יִן֙ לִרְא֔וֹת וְלֹא־תִמָּלֵ֥א אֹ֖זֶן מִשְּׁמֹֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* all (the) things \[are\].wearisome not he.is.able anyone to speak.\[them\] not it.is.satisfied an.eye by seeing and not it.is.filled an.ear from hearing

*JPS 1917:* All things toil to weariness; man cannot utter it, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

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[Deuteronomy 25:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.18/)

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אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָֽרְךָ֜ בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְ וַיְזַנֵּ֤ב בְּךָ֙ כָּל־הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִ֣ים אַֽחַרֶ֔יךָוְאַתָּ֖ה עָיֵ֣ף וְיָגֵ֑עַ וְלֹ֥א יָרֵ֖א אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (cmp) it met.you on the way and it.attacked.in.the.rear among you all \[those who.were\].straggling behind you and you \[were\].exhausted and weary and not it.feared God

*JPS 1917:* how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

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