קָלָה qâlâh — to toast, i.e. scorch partially or slowly
Translated in the KJV as dried, loathsome, parch, roast.
a primitive root (rather identical with H7034 through the idea of shrinkage by heat); to toast, i.e. scorch partially or slowly.
qâlâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The Lord make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my 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 ›