לוּן lûwn — to stop (usually over night)
Translated in the KJV as abide, continue, dwell, endure, grudge, be left, lie all night, lodge (all night, in, -ing, this night), murmur.
or לִין; a primitive root; to stop (usually over night); by implication, to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain).
lûwn in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 33Wayyiqtol 13Imperative 7Infinitive construct 7Participle (active) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Jussive 2Perfect (qatal) 1Cohortative 1
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?
She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Wayyiqtol 3Participle (active) 3Perfect (qatal) 1
And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 6
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Hitpolel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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 ›