נָקַר nâqar — to bore (penetrate, quarry)
Translated in the KJV as dig, pick out, pierce, put out.
a primitive root; to bore (penetrate, quarry).
nâqar in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
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 ›