גּוּז gûwz — properly, to shear off
Translated in the KJV as bring, cut off.
a primitive root (compare H1494); properly, to shear off; but used only in the (figuratively) sense of passing rapidly.
gûwz in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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 ›