פּוּשׁ pûwsh — to spread
Translated in the KJV as grow up, be grown fat, spread selves, be scattered.
a primitive root; to spread; figuratively, act proudly.
pûwsh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
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 ›