נָגַהּ nâgahh — to glitter
Translated in the KJV as lighten, shine.
a primitive root; to glitter; causatively, to illuminate.
nâgahh in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
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 ›