פָּדַע pâdaʻ — to retrieve
Translated in the KJV as deliver.
a primitive root; to retrieve.
pâdaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperative 1
פְּ֭דָעֵהוּ Job 33:24 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
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 ›