גָּהָה gâhâh — to remove (a bandage from a wound, i.e. heal it)
Translated in the KJV as cure.
a primitive root; to remove (a bandage from a wound, i.e. heal it).
gâhâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יִגְהֶ֥ה Hos 5:13 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
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 ›