סָאַן çâʼan — to be miry
Translated in the KJV as warrior.
a primitive root; to be miry; used only as denominative from H5430; to shoe, i.e. (active participle) a soldier shod.
çâʼan in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
סֹאֵ֣ן Isa 9:4 Participle (active), masculine singular
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
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 ›