חָדַשׁ châdash — to be new

pronounced khaw-dash' · Strong's H2318 · 10 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Pi'el, Hitpa'el

Translated in the KJV as renew, repair.

a primitive root; to be new; causatively, to rebuild.

châdash in each stem

Pi'el 9×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Infinitive construct 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Imperative 2Cohortative 1Wayyiqtol 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1

וּנְחַדֵּ֥שׁ 1Sam 11:14 Cohortative, 1st person common plural

Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there. (KJV)

וַיְחַדֵּשׁ֙ 2Chr 15:8 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord. (KJV)

לְחַדֵּ֖שׁ 2Chr 24:4 Infinitive construct

And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord. (KJV)

Hitpa'el 1×

Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

תִּתְחַדֵּ֖שׁ Ps 103:5 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine singular

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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