שָׂרַךְ sârak — to interlace
Translated in the KJV as traverse.
a primitive root; to interlace.
sârak in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
מְשָׂרֶ֥כֶת Jer 2:23 Participle (active), feminine singular
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
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 ›