ya.phach describes the laboring daughter of Zion gasping as she spreads out her hands.

The attested use depicts labored breathing or gasping in the daughter of Zion's cry of distress, set alongside the image of a woman in labor in Jeremiah 4:31.

1. Gasping in labor-like distress · dominant

   The Hithpael imperfect feminine singular form occurs in the portrayal of the daughter of Zion as a woman in labor who spreads out her hands. In Jeremiah 4:31 the APB renders the scene with the daughter of Zion “gasping” before her soul faints before the killers.

   Jeremiah 4:31

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Jeremiah 4:31, the APB presents the labor-and-distress scene with “gasping.” This describes the verse's presentation rather than a fixed lexical rendering.