בָּעַל bâʻal — to be master
Translated in the KJV as have dominion, be husband, marry(-ried, × wife).
a primitive root; also as denominative from H1167; to be master; hence, to marry.
bâʻal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 5Participle (passive) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi–bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
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 ›