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צָעַד tsâʻad — to pace, i.e. step regularly

pronounced tsaw-ad' · Strong's H6805 · 8 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Qal (Pa'al), Hiph'il

Translated in the KJV as bring, go, march, run over.

a primitive root; to pace, i.e. step regularly; (upward) to mount; (along) to march; (down and causatively) to hurl.

tsâʻad in each stem

Qal (Pa'al)

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 2Infinitive construct 2

צָעֲדָ֖ה Gen 49:22 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: (KJV)

בְּצַעְדְּךָ֙ Judg 5:4 Infinitive construct

Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. (KJV)

צָעֲד֛וּ 2Sam 6:13 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. (KJV)

Hiph'il

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

וְ֝תַצְעִדֵ֗הוּ Job 18:14 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine singular

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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