Strong's Hebrew · H2976
יָאַשׁ
yâʼash · yaw-ash'
(cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
Definition
to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 6 times in Scripture
“You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’”
“So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.”
“Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?”
“David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.””
“You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.”
“But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’””
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).