אָלָה ʼâlâh — to bewail

pronounced aw-law' · Strong's H421 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as lament.

a primitive root (rather identical with H422 through the idea of invocation); to bewail.

ʼâlâh in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Imperative 1

אֱלִ֕י Joel 1:8 Imperative, 2nd person feminine singular

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. (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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