שָׁלַג shâlag — properly, meaning to be white
Translated in the KJV as be as snow.
a primitive root; properly, meaning to be white; used only as denominative from H7950; to be snow-white (with the linen clothing of the slain).
shâlag in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
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 ›
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