קוּן qûwn — to strike a musical note, i.e. chant or wail (at a funeral)
Translated in the KJV as lament, mourning woman.
a primitive root; to strike a musical note, i.e. chant or wail (at a funeral).
qûwn in each stem
Polel
Wayyiqtol 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
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 ›