סָחַר çâchar — to travel round (specifically as a pedlar)
Translated in the KJV as go about, merchant, occupy with, pant, trade, traffick.
a primitive root; to travel round (specifically as a pedlar); intensively, to palpitate.
çâchar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 16Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Imperative 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Pe'al'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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 ›