עָלַז ʻâlaz — to jump for joy, i.e. exult
Translated in the KJV as be joyful, rejoice, triumph.
a primitive root; to jump for joy, i.e. exult.
ʻâlaz in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Cohortative 3Wayyiqtol 2Imperative 2Infinitive construct 1
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
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 ›