פָּשַׂע pâsaʻ — to stride (from spreading the legs), i.e. rush upon
Translated in the KJV as go.
a primitive root; to stride (from spreading the legs), i.e. rush upon.
pâsaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Cohortative 1
אֶפְשְׂעָ֥ה Isa 27:4 Cohortative, 1st person common singular
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
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 ›