צָעַן tsâʻan — to load up (beasts), i.e. to migrate
Translated in the KJV as be taken down.
a primitive root; to load up (beasts), i.e. to migrate.
tsâʻan in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יִצְעָן֙ Isa 33:20 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
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 ›