צָנַע tsânaʻ — to humiliate
Translated in the KJV as humbly, lowly.
a primitive root; to humiliate.
tsânaʻ in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1
וְהַצְנֵ֥עַ Mic 6:8 Infinitive absolute
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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 ›
