נָקַב nâqab — to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)
Translated in the KJV as appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express, with holes, name, pierce, strike through.
a primitive root; to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel).
nâqab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Wayyiqtol 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Participle (passive) 2Imperative 1Participle (active) 1Infinitive construct 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 6
And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever;
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 ›