נָגַר nâgar — to flow
Translated in the KJV as fall, flow away, pour down, run, shed, spilt, trickle down.
a primitive root; to flow; figuratively, to stretch out; causatively, to pour out or down; figuratively, to deliver over.
nâgar in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 2Perfect (qatal) 2
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 1
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
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 ›