נָעַל nâʻal — properly, to fasten up, i.e. with a bar or cord
Translated in the KJV as bolt, inclose, lock, shoe, shut up.
a primitive root; also denominative from H5275; properly, to fasten up, i.e. with a bar or cord; hence, to sandal, i.e. furnish with slippers.
nâʻal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 3Perfect (qatal) 2Imperative 1Wayyiqtol 1
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 1
And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
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 ›