מוּד mûwd — to shake
Translated in the KJV as measure.
a primitive root; to shake.
mûwd in each stem
Polel
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיְמֹ֣דֶד Hab 3:6 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
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 ›