נָדַר nâdar — to promise (pos., to do or give something to God)
Translated in the KJV as vow.
a primitive root; to promise (pos., to do or give something to God).
nâdar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 11Perfect (qatal) 9Wayyiqtol 5Participle (active) 2Infinitive construct 2Imperative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
I am the God of Beth–el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
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 ›