אָנַשׁ ʼânash — to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy
Translated in the KJV as desperate, incurable, sick, woeful.
a primitive root; to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy.
ʼânash in each stem
Niph'al
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיֵּאָנַֽשׁ 2Sam 12:15 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
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 ›