עוּת ʻûwth — to hasten, i.e. succor
Translated in the KJV as speak in season.
for H5789; to hasten, i.e. succor.
ʻûwth in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לָע֥וּת Isa 50:4 Infinitive construct
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
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 ›