פּוּג pûwg — to be sluggish
Translated in the KJV as cease, be feeble, faint, be slacked.
a primitive root; to be sluggish.
pûwg in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1
And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he believed them not.
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
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 ›