חָלַק châlaq — to be smooth (figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as deal, distribute, divide, flatter, give, (have, im-) part, take away a portion, receive, separate self, smooth.
a primitive root; to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate.
châlaq in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 11Wayyiqtol 4Infinitive construct 3Perfect (qatal) 3Cohortative 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperative 1
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 8Wayyiqtol 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1Participle (active) 1
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Infinitive construct 1
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Wayyiqtol 1
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Hitpa'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
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 ›