צָלַח tsâlach — to push forward, in various senses (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
Translated in the KJV as break out, come, go over, be good, be meet, be profitable, (cause to, effect, make to, send) prosper(-ity, -ous, -ously).
or צָלֵחַ; a primitive root; to push forward, in various senses (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive).
tsâlach in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 11Imperative 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Perfect (qatal) 6Participle (active) 5Wayyiqtol 3
And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:
And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Wayyiqtol 9Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperative 1
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.
And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.
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 ›