יָאַשׁ yâʼash — to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
Translated in the KJV as despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
a primitive root; to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond.
yâʼash in each stem
Niph'al
Participle (active) 4Perfect (qatal) 1
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 1
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›