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עוּד ʻûwd — to duplicate or repeat

pronounced ood · Strong's H5749 · 44 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 5 stems: Hiph'il, Polel, Hoph'al, Hitpolel, Pi'el

Translated in the KJV as admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, protest, call to record, relieve, rob, solemnly, stand upright, testify, give warning.

a primitive root; to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication).

ʻûwd in each stem

Hiph'il 39×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 11Wayyiqtol 11Infinitive absolute 5Cohortative 5Imperative 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1Jussive 1

הָעֵ֣ד Gen 43:3 Infinitive absolute

And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. (KJV)

הָעֵ֣ד Exod 19:21 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. (KJV)

הַעֵדֹ֤תָה Exod 19:23 Perfect (qatal), 2nd person masculine singular

And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. (KJV)

Polel

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Participle (active) 1

יְעוֹדֵ֑ד Ps 146:9 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. (KJV)

מְעוֹדֵ֣ד Ps 147:6 Participle (active), masculine singular

The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground. (KJV)

Hoph'al

Causative · passive — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject has it done to them

Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1

וְהוּעַ֤ד Exod 21:29 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 3rd person masculine singular

But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. (KJV)

Hitpolel

Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves

Wayyiqtol 1

וַנִּתְעוֹדָֽד Ps 20:9 Wayyiqtol, 1st person common plural

Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call. (KJV)

Pi'el

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

עִוְּדֻ֑נִי Ps 119:61 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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