יָאַל yâʼal — properly, to be slack, i.e. (figuratively) to be foolish
Translated in the KJV as dote, be (become, do) foolish.
a primitive root; properly, to be slack, i.e. (figuratively) to be foolish.
yâʼal in each stem
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
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 ›