נָשַׁת nâshath — properly, to eliminate, i.e. (intransitively) to dry up
Translated in the KJV as fail.
a primitive root; properly, to eliminate, i.e. (intransitively) to dry up.
nâshath in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
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 ›