בָּדַק bâdaq — to gap open
Translated in the KJV as repair.
a primitive root; to gap open; used only as a denominative from H919; to mend a breach.
bâdaq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לִבְדּ֥וֹק 2Chr 34:10 Infinitive construct
And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repair and amend the house:
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 ›