נוּחַ nûwach — quiet
Translated in the KJV as rest(-ed, -ing place).
or נוֹחַ; from H5117; quiet.
nûwach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1
וְנ֨וֹחַ֙ Esth 9:16 Infinitive absolute
But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
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 ›