עוּג ʻûwg — properly, to gyrate
Translated in the KJV as bake.
a primitive root; properly, to gyrate; but used only as a denominative from H5692,; to bake (round cakes on the hearth).
ʻûwg in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה Ezek 4:12 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
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 ›