רוּץ rûwts — to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush)
Translated in the KJV as break down, divide speedily, footman, guard, bring hastily, run (away, through), post.
a primitive root; to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush).
rûwts in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 33Wayyiqtol 26Imperfect (yiqtol) 21Perfect (qatal) 5Imperative 4Infinitive construct 3Cohortative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Wayyiqtol 2Imperative 1
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;
And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
Polel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
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 ›