בָּזַר bâzar — to disperse

pronounced baw-zar' · Strong's H967 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Pi'el, Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as scatter.

a primitive root; to disperse.

bâzar in each stem

Pi'el 1×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

בִּזַּ֥ר Ps 68:31 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. (KJV)

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

יִבְז֑וֹר Dan 11:24 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time. (KJV)

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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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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