טָלָא ṭâlâʼ — properly, to cover with pieces
Translated in the KJV as clouted, with divers colours, spotted.
a primitive root; properly, to cover with pieces; i.e. (by implication) to spot or variegate (as tapestry).
ṭâlâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 7
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
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 ›