גִּיל gîyl — a revolution (of time, i.e. an age)
Translated in the KJV as × exceedingly, gladness, × greatly, joy, rejoice, sort.
from H1523; a revolution (of time, i.e. an age); also joy.
gîyl in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 2
גול Prov 23:24 Infinitive absolute
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
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 ›