שָׂרָה sârâh — to prevail
Translated in the KJV as have power.
a primitive root; to prevail.
sârâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 2
שָׂרִ֧יתָ Gen 32:29 Perfect (qatal), 2nd person masculine singular
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
שָׂרָ֥ה Hos 12:4 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth–el, and there he spake with us;
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 ›