תָּמַךְ tâmak — to sustain
Translated in the KJV as (take, up-) hold, maintain, retain, stay.
a primitive root; to sustain; by implication, to obtain, keep fast; figuratively, to help, follow close.
tâmak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 5Participle (active) 4Jussive 2Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive absolute 1Infinitive construct 1
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.
But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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 ›