חָנָה chânâh — properly, to incline
Translated in the KJV as abide, camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch, rest in tent.
a primitive root (compare H2603); properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or siege).
chânâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 92Participle (active) 19Imperfect (yiqtol) 16Perfect (qatal) 6Infinitive construct 4Imperative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Jussive 1
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan–aram; and pitched his tent before the city.
And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
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 ›