נָטַע nâṭaʻ — properly, to strike in, i.e. fix
Translated in the KJV as fastened, plant.
a primitive root; properly, to strike in, i.e. fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively).
nâṭaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 17Sequential perfect (weqatal) 11Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Wayyiqtol 7Infinitive construct 5Imperative 4Participle (active) 3Participle (passive) 2
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
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 ›