שָׂטָה sâṭâh — to deviate from duty
Translated in the KJV as decline, go aside, turn.
a primitive root; to deviate from duty.
sâṭâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 2Imperative 1Jussive 1
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
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 ›