רָפַק râphaq — to recline
Translated in the KJV as lean.
a primitive root; to recline.
râphaq in each stem
Hitpa'el
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Participle (active) 1
מִתְרַפֶּ֖קֶת Song 8:5 Participle (active), feminine singular
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
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 ›