יָלַל yâlal — to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one)
Translated in the KJV as howl, be howling.
a primitive root; to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one).
yâlal in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperative 19Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Perfect (qatal) 1Cohortative 1
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
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 ›