Strong's #2976: ya'ash (pronounced yaw-ash')

a primitive root; to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond:--(cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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yâ'ash

1) to despair

1a) (Niphal) to be despaired, be desperate

1b) (Piel) to cause to despair

2) it is hopeless!

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

1 Samuel 27:1: "into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more"
Job 6:26: "to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?"
Ecclesiastes 2:20: "went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took"
Isaiah 57:10: "of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore"
Jeremiah 2:25: "from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for"
Jeremiah 18:12: "And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do"