צָלַל tsâlal — to shade, as twilight or an opaque object
Translated in the KJV as begin to be dark, shadowing.
a primitive root (identical with through the idea of hovering over (compare H6754)); to shade, as twilight or an opaque object.
tsâlal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 1
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
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 ›