רָמַם râmam — to rise (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as exalt, get up, lift up, mount up.
a primitive root; to rise (literally or figuratively).
râmam in each stem
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 2Imperative 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Polel
Participle (active) 1
The right hand of the Lord is exalted: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
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 ›