# H2976 יָאַשׁ

יָאַשׁ (yâʼash), Strong’s H2976: to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond KJV: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.. Occurs 6 times.

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*yâʼash* — to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond

KJV: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [יָאַשׁ] vb. despair
- Niph. despair
- Pi. to make my heart despair, concerning all the toil.

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 27:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/27?v=1) — 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…
- [Isaiah 57:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/57?v=10) — You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your…
- [Jeremiah 2:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=25) — “Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved…
- [Jeremiah 18:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/18?v=12) — But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his…
- [Job 6:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/6?v=26) — Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
- [Ecclesiastes 2:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=20) — Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.