חָמַר châmar — properly, to boil up
Translated in the KJV as daub, befoul, be red, trouble.
a primitive root; also as denominative (from H2564); properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch.
châmar in each stem
Pe'al'al
Perfect (qatal) 4
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
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 ›