פָּלַל pâlal — to judge (officially or mentally)
Translated in the KJV as intreat, judge, pray(-er, -ing), make supplication.
a primitive root; to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray.
pâlal in each stem
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 24Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Sequential perfect (weqatal) 11Infinitive construct 10Imperative 7Participle (active) 7Perfect (qatal) 4Jussive 4
Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
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 ›