גָּלַל gâlal — to roll (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as commit, remove, roll (away, down, together), run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow.
a primitive root; to roll (literally or figuratively).
gâlal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 5Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1Participle (active) 1
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
Hitpolel
Infinitive construct 1Participle (active) 1
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
Niph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Hitpalpel
Perfect (qatal) 1
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Pi'el
Imperative 1
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Po'al
Participle (passive) 1
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
Pilpel
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
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 ›
