אוּת ʼûwth — properly, to come, i.e. (implied) to assent
Translated in the KJV as consent.
a primitive root; properly, to come, i.e. (implied) to assent.
ʼûwth in each stem
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Cohortative 1Wayyiqtol 1
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
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 ›
