בּוּךְ bûwk — to involve (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as be entangled.
a primitive root; to involve (literally or figuratively).
bûwk in each stem
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 1
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
The posts went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
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 ›