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
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Cohortative 3Participle (active) 1
וְאַבְלִֽיגָה Job 9:27 Cohortative, 1st person common singular
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה Job 10:20 Cohortative, 1st person common singular
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 ›