דָּאָה dâʼâh — to dart, i.e. fly rapidly
Translated in the KJV as fly.
a primitive root; to dart, i.e. fly rapidly.
dâʼâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Wayyiqtol 1
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
For thus saith the Lord; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
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 ›