מָשָׁה mâshâh — to pull out (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as draw.
a primitive root; to pull out (literally or figuratively).
mâshâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
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 ›
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