נָאַף nâʼaph — to commit adultery
Translated in the KJV as adulterer, commit adultery, woman that breaketh wedlock.
a primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize.
nâʼaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive absolute 3Wayyiqtol 2
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Pi'el
Participle (active) 9Perfect (qatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
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 ›