טָבַל ṭâbal — to dip, to immerse
Translated in the KJV as dip, plunge.
a primitive root; to dip, to immerse.
ṭâbal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 8Wayyiqtol 5Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the vail of the sanctuary.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
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 ›