אָדַשׁ ʼâdash — to tread out (grain)
Translated in the KJV as thresh.
a primitive root; to tread out (grain).
ʼâdash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1
אָד֣וֹשׁ Isa 28:28 Infinitive absolute
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
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 ›