עָגַם ʻâgam — to be sad
Translated in the KJV as grieve.
a primitive root; to be sad.
ʻâgam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
עָֽגְמָ֥ה Job 30:25 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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 ›