יָבַב yâbab — to bawl
Translated in the KJV as cry out.
a primitive root; to bawl.
yâbab in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַתְּיַבֵּ֛ב Judg 5:28 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person feminine singular
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
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 ›