פָּלַס pâlaç — properly, to roll flat, i.e. prepare (a road)
Translated in the KJV as make, ponder, weigh.
a primitive root; properly, to roll flat, i.e. prepare (a road); also to revolve, i.e. weigh (mentally).
pâlaç in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Imperative 1Participle (active) 1
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
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 ›