רָתַם râtham — to yoke up (to the pole of a vehicle)
Translated in the KJV as bind.
a primitive root; to yoke up (to the pole of a vehicle).
râtham in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperative 1
רְתֹ֧ם Mic 1:13 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
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 ›