צָנַם tsânam — to blast or shrink
Translated in the KJV as withered.
a primitive root; to blast or shrink.
tsânam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (passive) 1
צְנֻמ֥וֹת Gen 41:23 Participle (passive), feminine plural
And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
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 ›