נָטַל nâṭal — to lift
Translated in the KJV as bear, offer, take up.
a primitive root; to lift; by implication, to impose.
nâṭal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 1
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
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 ›