סָחַב çâchab — to trail along
Translated in the KJV as draw, tear.
a primitive root; to trail along.
çâchab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1Infinitive absolute 1
Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
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 ›