פָּזַז pâzaz — to solidify (as if by refining)
Translated in the KJV as leap, be made strong.
a primitive root (identical with H6338); to solidify (as if by refining); also to spring (as if separating the limbs).
pâzaz in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1
But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Pi'el
Participle (active) 1
And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
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 ›