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יָבַב

ya.vav

to cry

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Strong’s H2980Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

she lamented1

In the text

Judges 5:28וַתְּיַבֵּב
Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[יָבַב] vb. only Pi. cry shrilly—Pi. Ju 5:28

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.