עִיף

In the text

• Judges 4:21וַיָּעַף

  But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.

• 1 Samuel 14:28וַיָּעַף

  Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”

• 2 Samuel 21:15וַיָּעַף

  Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines. But David became exhausted.

• Jeremiah 4:31עָיְפָה

  For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

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