אָבַךְ ʼâbak — probably to coil upward

pronounced aw-bak' · Strong's H55 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Hitpa'el

Translated in the KJV as mount up.

a primitive root; probably to coil upward.

ʼâbak in each stem

Hitpa'el 1×

Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves

Wayyiqtol 1

וַיִּֽתְאַבְּכ֖וּ Isa 9:17 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. (KJV)

What the stems mean

A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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