צְבָא tsᵉbâʼ — to please
Translated in the KJV as will, would.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H6623 in the figurative sense of summoning one's wishes; to please.
tsᵉbâʼ in each stem
Pe'al
Participle (active) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 2Infinitive construct 1
He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
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 ›