רָצָא râtsâʼ — to run
Translated in the KJV as accept, run.
a primitive root; to run; also to delight in.
râtsâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1
רָצ֣וֹא Ezek 1:14 Infinitive absolute
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
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 ›