רָדַם râdam — to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)
Translated in the KJV as (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
a primitive root; to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death).
râdam in each stem
Niph'al
Participle (active) 5Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
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 ›