בָּלַג bâlag — to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e. desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction)
Translated in the KJV as comfort, strength.
a primitive root; to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e. desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction).
bâlag in each stem
Hiph'il
Cohortative 3Participle (active) 1
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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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