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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.
Read in context →We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
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yâʼash · yaw-ash'
to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 27:1Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 2:20
Open full H2976 profile →exaporéomai · ex-ap-or-eh'-om-ahee
to be utterly at a loss, i.e. despond
Strong's KJV usage: :--(in) despair.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 4:8Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 4:8
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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.
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
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DESPAIR, noun
1. Hopelessness; a hopeless state; a destitution of hope or expectation.
We are perplexed, but not in despair 2 Corinthians 4:8.
All safety in despair of safety placed.
2. That which causes despair; that of which there is no hope.
The mere despair of surgery, he cures.
3. Loss of hope in the mercy of God.
DESPAIR, verb intransitive [Latin To hope.] To be without hope; to hive up all hope or expectation; followed by of.
We despaired even of life. 2 Corinthians 1:8.
Never despair of Gods blessings here, or of his reward hereafter.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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