נוּא nûwʼ — to refuse, forbid, dissuade, or neutralize
Translated in the KJV as break, disallow, discourage, make of none effect.
a primitive root; to refuse, forbid, dissuade, or neutralize.
nûwʼ in each stem
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Wayyiqtol 1Jussive 1
And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.
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 ›