דָּקַר dâqar — to stab
Translated in the KJV as pierce, strike through, wound.
a primitive root; to stab; by analogy, to starve; figuratively, to revile.
dâqar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 2Imperative 2Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 3
For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
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 ›