צוּף tsûwph — to overflow
Translated in the KJV as flow, swim.
a primitive root; to overflow.
tsûwph in each stem
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;
And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
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 ›