צְלַח tsᵉlach — to advance (transitive or intransitive)
Translated in the KJV as promote, prosper.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H6743; to advance (transitive or intransitive).
tsᵉlach in each stem
Aph'el
Participle (active) 2
Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Haph'el
Perfect (qatal) 2
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, in the province 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 ›