יָפַח yâphach

Meaning

properly, to breathe hard, i.e. (by implication) to sigh

In the King James Version: bewail self.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Jeremiah 4:31 For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”