מִדַּד middad — flight
Translated in the KJV as be gone.
from H5074; flight.
middad in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
וּמִדַּד Job 7:4 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 3rd person masculine singular
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
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 ›