אָהַל ʼâhal — to be clear
Translated in the KJV as shine.
a primitive root; to be clear.
ʼâhal in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יַאֲהִ֑יל Job 25:5 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
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 ›