נָזַל nâzal — to drip, or shed by trickling
Translated in the KJV as distil, drop, flood, flow, gush out, melt, pour, running water, stream.
a primitive root; to drip, or shed by trickling.
nâzal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 1Jussive 1
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
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 ›