מָעַל mâʻal — properly, to cover up
Translated in the KJV as transgress, (commit, do a) trespass.
a primitive root; properly, to cover up; used only figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. treacherously.
mâʻal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 19Infinitive construct 6Wayyiqtol 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive absolute 1
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
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 ›