נָאַק nâʼaq — to groan

pronounced naw-ak' · Strong's H5008 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as groan.

a primitive root; to groan.

nâʼaq in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 2×

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

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1

יִנְאָ֗קוּ Job 24:12 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. (KJV)

וְנָאַ֛ק Ezek 30:24 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. (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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