נָחַץ nâchats — to be urgent
Translated in the KJV as require haste.
a primitive root; to be urgent.
nâchats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (passive) 1
נָחֽוּץ 1Sam 21:9 Participle (passive), masculine singular
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
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 ›