נָשַׁב nâshab — to blow
Translated in the KJV as blow, drive away.
a primitive root; to blow; by implication, to disperse.
nâshab in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
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 ›
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