תָּלָה tâlâh — to suspend (especially to gibbet)
Translated in the KJV as hang.
a primitive root; to suspend (especially to gibbet).
tâlâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Participle (passive) 4Wayyiqtol 3Jussive 2Infinitive construct 2Imperative 1Participle (active) 1
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 2
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
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 ›