נָצָא nâtsâʼ — to go away
Translated in the KJV as flee.
a primitive root; to go away.
nâtsâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1
נָצֹ֖א Jer 48:9 Infinitive absolute
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
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 ›