טוּחַ ṭûwach — to smear, especially with lime
Translated in the KJV as daub, overlay, plaister, smut.
a primitive root; to smear, especially with lime.
ṭûwach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (active) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Niph'al
Infinitive construct 2
And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
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 ›