שָׂתַר sâthar — to break out (as an eruption)
Translated in the KJV as have in secret parts.
a primitive root; to break out (as an eruption).
sâthar in each stem
Niph'al
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיִּשָּׂתְר֥וּ 1Sam 5:9 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural
And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
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 ›