תָּנָה tânâh — to ascribe (praise), i.e. celebrate, commemorate
Translated in the KJV as lament, rehearse.
a primitive root (identical with through the idea of attributing honor); to ascribe (praise), i.e. celebrate, commemorate.
tânâh in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Infinitive construct 1
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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 ›