רָגַע râgaʻ — properly, to toss violently and suddenly (the sea with waves, the skin with boils)
Translated in the KJV as break, divide, find ease, be a moment, (cause, give, make to) rest, make suddenly.
a primitive root; properly, to toss violently and suddenly (the sea with waves, the skin with boils); figuratively (in a favorable manner) to settle, i.e. quiet; specifically, to wink (from the motion of the eye-lids).
râgaʻ in each stem
Hiph'il
Cohortative 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive construct 2Perfect (qatal) 1
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 2
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
Niph'al
Imperative 1
O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
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 ›