מְשֹׁל mᵉshôl — a satire
Translated in the KJV as byword.
from H4911; a satire.
mᵉshôl in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לִמְשֹׁ֣ל Job 17:6 Infinitive construct
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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 ›