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נְחַת nᵉchath — to descend

pronounced nekh-ath' · Strong's H5182 · 6 occurrences in the Aramaic Bible · 4 stems: Aph'el, Pe'al, Haph'el, Hoph'al

Translated in the KJV as carry, come down, depose, lay up, place.

(Aramaic) corresponding to H5181; to descend; causatively, to bring away, deposit, depose.

nᵉchath in each stem

Aph'el

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Imperative 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

אֲחֵ֣ת Ezra 5:15 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular

And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place. (KJV)

וְתַחֵ֖ת Ezra 6:5 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular

And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God. (KJV)

Pe'al

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Participle (active) 2

נָחִֽת Dan 4:10 Participle (active), masculine singular

Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. (KJV)

נָחִ֣ת Dan 4:20 Participle (active), masculine singular

The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; (KJV)

Haph'el

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Participle (passive) 1

מְהַחֲתִ֥ין Ezra 6:1 Participle (passive), masculine plural

Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. (KJV)

Hoph'al

Causative · passive — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 1

הָנְחַת֙ Dan 5:20 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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