- Original: יאשׁ - Transliteration: Ya'ash - Phonetic: yaw-ash' - Definition: 1. to despair a. (Niphal) to be despaired, be desperate b. (Piel) to cause to despair interj 2. it is hopeless! - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 833 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to desist that is (figuratively) to despond: - (cause to) despair one that is desperate be no hope. Total KJV Occurrences: 6 • despair, 2 1 Samuel 27:1; Ecclesiastes 2:20 • desperate, 1 Job 6:26 • hope, 3 Isaiah 57:10; Jeremiah 2:25; Jeremiah 18:12