תָּלָא tâlâʼ — to suspend
Translated in the KJV as be bent, hang.
a primitive root; to suspend; figuratively (through hesitation) to be uncertain; by implication (of mental dependence) to habituate.
tâlâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 2
And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
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 ›