עָזַב ʻâzab — to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc
Translated in the KJV as commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, × surely.
a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
ʻâzab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 68Imperfect (yiqtol) 40Wayyiqtol 32Participle (passive) 13Participle (active) 13Jussive 11Infinitive construct 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Imperative 5Cohortative 4Infinitive absolute 2
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 2Participle (passive) 1
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Qal passive
Perfect (qatal) 1
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
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 ›