נָשַׁף nâshaph — to breeze, i.e. blow up fresh (as the wind)
Translated in the KJV as blow.
a primitive root; to breeze, i.e. blow up fresh (as the wind).
nâshaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
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 ›