FAINT, exhausted — spent for want of food or water or rest; the adjective of a body with nothing left. ⭐ It is Esau's word: he comes in from the field ayeph at Genesis 25:29–30 (already on these pages, where it is rendered famished) and sells his birthright for a bowl of stew. Deuteronomy 25:18 uses it of Israel on the road out of Egypt, faint and weary, when Esau's grandson Amalek (Genesis 36:12, already on these pages) struck the stragglers. ⭐ The pair ayeph ve-yagea, faint and weary, is what Isaiah 40:28–31 (already on these pages) builds its promise from: the God who does not faint or grow weary gives strength to the faint, and those who wait for him run and do not grow weary, walk and do not faint. ⚠ Gideon's three hundred cross the Jordan faint yet pursuing (Judges 8:4), David and his men arrive ayephim in the flight from Absalom (2 Samuel 16:14), Isaiah 28:12 offers rest to the weary, and Job 22:7 accuses a man of giving no water to the faint (none yet on these pages). → first discussed at Deut 25:18