רָצַף râtsaph — to tessellate, i.e. embroider (as if with bright stones)

pronounced raw-tsaf' · Strong's H7528 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as pave.

a denominative from H7529; to tessellate, i.e. embroider (as if with bright stones).

râtsaph in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Participle (passive) 1

רָצ֣וּף Song 3:10 Participle (passive), masculine singular

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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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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