מוּשׁ mûwsh — to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)
Translated in the KJV as cease, depart, go back, remove, take away.
a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as H4184 through the idea of receding by contact); to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive).
mûwsh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 14Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Perfect (qatal) 1Jussive 1
He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
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 ›