אָנַן ʼânan — to mourn, i.e. complain
Translated in the KJV as complain.
a primitive root; to mourn, i.e. complain.
ʼânan in each stem
Hitpolel
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
כְּמִתְאֹ֣נְנִ֔ים Num 11:1 Participle (active), masculine plural
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
יִּתְאוֹנֵן֙ Lam 3:39 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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 ›