נָבַח nâbach — to bark (as a dog)
Translated in the KJV as bark.
a primitive root; to bark (as a dog).
nâbach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לִנְבֹּ֑חַ Isa 56:10 Infinitive construct
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
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 ›