גָּנַב gânab — to thieve (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as carry away, × indeed, secretly bring, steal, get by stealth.
a primitive root; to thieve (literally or figuratively); by implication, to deceive.
gânab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Wayyiqtol 6Participle (passive) 4Participle (active) 3Infinitive absolute 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
Pu'al
Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 1Participle (active) 1
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
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 ›
