דָּלַל dâlal — to slacken or be feeble
Translated in the KJV as bring low, dry up, be emptied, be not equal, fail, be impoverished, be made thin.
a primitive root (compare H1802); to slacken or be feeble; figuratively, to be oppressed.
dâlal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 7Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
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 ›