טָלַל ṭâlal — properly, to strew over, i.e. (by implication) to cover in or plate (with beams)
Translated in the KJV as cover.
a primitive root; properly, to strew over, i.e. (by implication) to cover in or plate (with beams).
ṭâlal in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col–hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
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 ›