רָזַם râzam — to twinkle the eye (in mockery)
Translated in the KJV as wink.
a primitive root; to twinkle the eye (in mockery).
râzam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יִּרְזְמ֥וּן Job 15:12 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
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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