מָסַס mâçaç — to liquefy
Translated in the KJV as discourage, faint, be loosed, melt, refuse, × utterly.
a primitive root; to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief).
mâçaç in each stem
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Wayyiqtol 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Participle (active) 1Infinitive absolute 1Infinitive construct 1
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 1
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
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 ›