פָּחַז pâchaz — to bubble up or froth (as boiling water), i.e. (figuratively) to be unimportant
Translated in the KJV as light.
a primitive root; to bubble up or froth (as boiling water), i.e. (figuratively) to be unimportant.
pâchaz in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 2
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal–berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
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 ›