נָסַג nâçag — to retreat
Translated in the KJV as departing away, remove, take, turn away.
a primitive root; to retreat.
nâçag in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 2Jussive 2
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Niph'al
Infinitive absolute 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
Hoph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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 ›