צָיַר tsâyar — to make an errand, i.e. betake oneself
Translated in the KJV as make as if...had been ambassador.
a denominative from H6735 in the sense of ambassador; to make an errand, i.e. betake oneself.
tsâyar in each stem
Hitpa'el
Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיִּצְטַיָּ֑רוּ Josh 9:4 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
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 ›