סוּג çûwg — properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)
Translated in the KJV as backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).
a primitive root; properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize).
çûwg in each stem
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (active) 2Wayyiqtol 1
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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 ›
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