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