נִשֵּׂאת nissêʼth — something taken, i.e. a present
Translated in the KJV as gift.
passive participle feminine of H5375; something taken, i.e. a present.
nissêʼth in each stem
Niph'al
Infinitive absolute 1
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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 ›