דּוּץ dûwts — to leap
Translated in the KJV as be turned.
a primitive root; to leap.
dûwts in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תָּד֥וּץ Job 41:14 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine singular
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
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 ›
