Yaga means “faint” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3021 — leukaino (“whiten”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3021 יָגַע (yaga`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yaga` (yaw-gah') v. 1. (properly) to gasp 2. (hence) to be exhausted, to tire, to toil It has 25 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include labour, laboured, weary, make, and faint. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
yaga` (yaw-gah') v. 1. (properly) to gasp 2. (hence) to be exhausted, to tire, to toil [a primitive root] KJV: faint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.
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be weary/toil
Usage: 1) to toil, labour, grow weary, be weary 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to toil, labour 1a2) to grow weary, be weary 1b) (Piel) to weary, make weary, cause to go toilsomely 1c) (Hiphil) to make to toil, make weary, cause to be weary
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yaga`, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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25 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3021.
And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
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.
The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
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Yaga (Strong's H3021) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "faint". yaga` (yaw-gah') v. 1. (properly) to gasp 2. (hence) to be exhausted, to tire, to toil
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's H3021 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3021 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as labour, laboured, weary, make, faint, and fainteth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.