מָעַךְ mâʻak — to press, i.e. to pierce, emasculate, handle
Translated in the KJV as bruised, stuck, be pressed.
a primitive root; to press, i.e. to pierce, emasculate, handle.
mâʻak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 2
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
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 ›