סוּר çûwr — (Hosea 9:12), a primitive root
Translated in the KJV as be, bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get, go, × grievous, lay away, leave undone, be past.
or שׂוּר; (Hosea 9:12), a primitive root; to turn off (literally or figuratively).
çûwr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 55Imperfect (yiqtol) 28Imperative 21Infinitive construct 15Wayyiqtol 12Sequential perfect (weqatal) 12Participle (active) 9Jussive 5Cohortative 2Infinitive absolute 2
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 28Imperfect (yiqtol) 27Perfect (qatal) 25Imperative 18Sequential perfect (weqatal) 14Infinitive construct 10Jussive 4Participle (active) 4Infinitive absolute 2Cohortative 1
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (passive) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
Polel
Perfect (qatal) 1
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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 ›