נָצַב nâtsab — to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as appointed, deputy, erect, establish, × Huzzah, lay, officer, pillar, present, rear up, set (over, up).
a primitive root; to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively).
nâtsab in each stem
Niph'al
Participle (active) 43Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 10Perfect (qatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Infinitive construct 2Participle (active) 1Imperative 1
And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
And he erected there an altar, and called it El–elohe–Israel.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
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 ›