שָׂדַד sâdad — to abrade, i.e. harrow a field
Translated in the KJV as break clods, harrow.
a primitive root; to abrade, i.e. harrow a field.
sâdad in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
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 ›