טָחַן ṭâchan — to grind meal
Translated in the KJV as grind.
a primitive root; to grind meal; hence, to be a concubine (that being their employment).
ṭâchan in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1Participle (active) 1Imperative 1
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
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 ›