חָנַט chânaṭ — to spice
Translated in the KJV as embalm, put forth.
a primitive root; to spice; by implication, to embalm; also to ripen.
chânaṭ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 2Infinitive construct 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
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 ›