יָפַח yâphach — properly, to breathe hard, i.e. (by implication) to sigh
Translated in the KJV as bewail self.
a primitive root; properly, to breathe hard, i.e. (by implication) to sigh.
yâphach in each stem
Hitpa'el
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תִּתְיַפֵּ֖חַ Jer 4:31 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine singular
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
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 ›