רָתַח râthach — to boil

pronounced raw-thakh' · Strong's H7570 · 3 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 3 stems: Pu'al, Hiph'il, Pi'el

Translated in the KJV as boil.

a primitive root; to boil.

râthach in each stem

Pu'al 1×

Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 1

רֻתְּח֥וּ Job 30:27 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. (KJV)

Hiph'il 1×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

יַרְתִּ֣יחַ Job 41:23 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. (KJV)

Pi'el 1×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Imperative 1

רַתַּ֣ח Ezek 24:5 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular

Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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