בָּצֵק bâtsêq — perhaps to swell up, i.e. blister
Translated in the KJV as swell.
a primitive root; perhaps to swell up, i.e. blister.
bâtsêq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2
Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
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 ›
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