הוּן hûwn — properly, to be naught, i.e. (figuratively) to be (causatively, act) light
Translated in the KJV as be ready.
a primitive root; properly, to be naught, i.e. (figuratively) to be (causatively, act) light.
hûwn in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַתָּהִ֖ינוּ Deut 1:41 Wayyiqtol, 2nd person masculine plural
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
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 ›