צוּק tsûwq — to pour out, i.e. (figuratively) smelt, utter
Translated in the KJV as be molten, pour.
a primitive root (identical with through the idea of narrowness (of orifice)); to pour out, i.e. (figuratively) smelt, utter.
tsûwq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon 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 ›