לָהַהּ lâhahh — to be rabid (figuratively, insane)

pronounced law-hah' · Strong's H3856 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Qal (Pa'al), Hitpalpel

Translated in the KJV as faint, mad.

a primitive root meaning properly, to burn, i.e. (by implication); to be rabid (figuratively, insane); also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languish.

lâhahh in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 1

וַתֵּ֜לַהּ Gen 47:13 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person feminine singular

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. (KJV)

Hitpalpel 1×

Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves

Participle (active) 1

כְּֽ֭מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ Prov 26:18 Participle (active), masculine singular

As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, (KJV)

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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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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