דָּלַח dâlach — to roil water

pronounced daw-lakh' · Strong's H1804 · 3 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as trouble.

a primitive root; to roil water.

dâlach in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 3×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1

וַתִּדְלַח Ezek 32:2 Wayyiqtol, 2nd person masculine singular

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. (KJV)

תִדְלָחֵ֤ם Ezek 32:13 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine singular

I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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