יָעַף yâʻaph — to tire (as if from wearisome flight)
Translated in the KJV as faint, cause to fly, weary.
a primitive root; to tire (as if from wearisome flight).
yâʻaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 1
Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
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 ›