אָבַר ʼâbar — to soar
Translated in the KJV as fly.
a primitive root; to soar.
ʼâbar in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יַֽאֲבֶר Job 39:26 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
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 ›