חָלַץ châlats — to pull off
Translated in the KJV as arm, (go, ready) armed (× man, soldier), deliver, draw out, make fat, loose, prepared, put off, take away, withdraw self.
a primitive root; to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen.
châlats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 18Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Imperative 3Wayyiqtol 3Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Imperative 1Participle (active) 1
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian.
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
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 ›