אָלַץ ʼâlats — to press
Translated in the KJV as urge.
a primitive root; to press.
ʼâlats in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַתְּאַֽלֲצֵ֑הוּ Judg 16:16 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person feminine singular
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
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 ›