אָמַל ʼâmal — to droop
Translated in the KJV as languish, be weak, wax feeble.
a primitive root; to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn.
ʼâmal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (passive) 1
אֲמֻלָה֙ Ezek 16:30 Participle (passive), feminine singular
How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
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 ›