שִׂיחַ sîyach — to ponder, i.e. (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence, aloud) or (transitively) utter
Translated in the KJV as commune, complain, declare, meditate, muse, pray, speak, talk.
a primitive root; to ponder, i.e. (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence, aloud) or (transitively) utter.
sîyach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Cohortative 8Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Imperative 4Infinitive construct 1
Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Polel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
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 ›