{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2976",
  "lemma": "יָאַשׁ",
  "transliteration": "yâʼash",
  "definition": "to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond",
  "kjv": "(cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.",
  "occurrences": 6,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[יָאַשׁ] vb. despair",
    "Niph. despair",
    "Pi. to make my heart despair, concerning all the toil."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 27:1",
      "text": "David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/27?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 57:10",
      "text": "You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/57?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 2:25",
      "text": "“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 18:12",
      "text": "But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/18?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 6:26",
      "text": "Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/6?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 2:20",
      "text": "Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=20"
    }
  ],
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