יָאַל yâʼal — properly, to yield, especially assent
Translated in the KJV as assay, begin, be content, please, take upon, × willingly, would.
a primitive root (probably rather the same as H2973 through the idea of mental weakness); properly, to yield, especially assent; hence (pos.) to undertake as an act of volition.
yâʼal in each stem
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 7Wayyiqtol 6Imperative 5Jussive 1
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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 ›