גִּיחַ gîyach — to gush forth (as water), generally to issue
Translated in the KJV as break forth, labor to bring forth, come forth, draw up, take out.
or (shortened) גֹּחַ; a primitive root; to gush forth (as water), generally to issue.
gîyach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Participle (active) 1Imperative 1
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal–tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
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 ›