אָנַח ʼânach — to sigh
Translated in the KJV as groan, mourn, sigh.
a primitive root; to sigh.
ʼânach in each stem
Niph'al
Participle (passive) 4Perfect (qatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1Imperative 1Participle (active) 1
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
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 ›