סָמַן çâman — to designate
Translated in the KJV as appointed.
a primitive root; to designate.
çâman in each stem
Niph'al
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Participle (active) 1
נִסְמָ֔ן Isa 28:25 Participle (active), masculine singular
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
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 ›