דָּלָה dâlâh — properly, to dangle, i.e. to let down a bucket (for drawing out water)
Translated in the KJV as draw, × enough, lift up.
a primitive root (compare H1809); properly, to dangle, i.e. to let down a bucket (for drawing out water); figuratively, to deliver.
dâlâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
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 ›