נָצַל nâtsal — to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
Translated in the KJV as × at all, defend, deliver, escape, × without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save.
a primitive root; to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense.
nâtsal in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 49Perfect (qatal) 36Imperative 27Infinitive construct 24Participle (active) 18Sequential perfect (weqatal) 16Wayyiqtol 15Infinitive absolute 5Jussive 1
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Imperative 2Infinitive construct 2Wayyiqtol 1Cohortative 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 2
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 1
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
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 ›