נָגַד nâgad — properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite
Translated in the KJV as bewray, × certainly, certify, declare, denounce, expound, × fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report.
a primitive root; properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise.
nâgad in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 101Imperfect (yiqtol) 68Perfect (qatal) 50Imperative 43Infinitive construct 28Participle (active) 20Sequential perfect (weqatal) 13Jussive 5Infinitive absolute 4Cohortative 4
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Hoph'al
Wayyiqtol 24Perfect (qatal) 8Infinitive absolute 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
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 ›