נוּחַ nûwach — to rest, i.e. settle down
Translated in the KJV as cease, be confederate, lay, let down, quiet, remain, (cause to, be at, give, have, make to) rest, set down. Compare H3241.
a primitive root; to rest, i.e. settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.).
nûwach in each stem
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 8Perfect (qatal) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Wayyiqtol 6Infinitive construct 4Participle (active) 1Imperative 1
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
Until the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Wayyiqtol 5Infinitive construct 5Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Infinitive absolute 1
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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 ›