רָכַב râkab — to ride (on an animal or in a vehicle)
Translated in the KJV as bring back), carry, get up, on back, put, (cause to, make to) ride (in a chariot, on, -r), set.
a primitive root; to ride (on an animal or in a vehicle); causatively, to place upon (for riding or generally), to despatch.
râkab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 37Wayyiqtol 8Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive construct 2Imperative 1
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 12Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Imperative 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
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 ›