מָצָה mâtsâh — to suck out
Translated in the KJV as suck, wring.
a primitive root; to suck out; by implication, to drain, to squeeze out.
mâtsâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
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 ›