דָּגַל dâgal — to flaunt, i.e. raise a flag
Translated in the KJV as (set up, with) banners, chiefest.
a primitive root; to flaunt, i.e. raise a flag; figuratively, to be conspicuous.
dâgal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Cohortative 1Participle (passive) 1
Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 2
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
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 ›