רָחַץ râchats — to lave (the whole or a part of a thing)
Translated in the KJV as bathe, wash.
a primitive root; to lave (the whole or a part of a thing).
râchats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 30Imperfect (yiqtol) 10Infinitive construct 8Wayyiqtol 8Perfect (qatal) 6Imperative 5Participle (active) 2
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 2
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Hitpa'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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 ›