גָּלָה gâlâh — to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense)
Translated in the KJV as advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive, depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone.
a primitive root; to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal.
gâlâh in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 18Perfect (qatal) 18Wayyiqtol 5Infinitive construct 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Imperative 3Participle (active) 2Jussive 2
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 14Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Participle (passive) 6Participle (active) 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Wayyiqtol 4Infinitive absolute 3Infinitive construct 2Imperative 1
He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 21Wayyiqtol 8Infinitive construct 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 12Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Infinitive construct 4Wayyiqtol 3Participle (active) 1Infinitive absolute 1Imperative 1
And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 6Participle (passive) 1
So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
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 ›