גּוּב gûwb — to dig
Translated in the KJV as husbandman.
a primitive root; to dig.
gûwb in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
וּלְיֹגְבִֽים 2Kgs 25:12 Participle (active), masculine plural
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
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 ›