צָהַר tsâhar — to glisten
Translated in the KJV as make oil.
a primitive root; to glisten; used only as denominative from H3323,; to press out oil.
tsâhar in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יַצְהִ֑ירוּ Job 24:11 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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 ›
