יָעַץ yâʻats — to advise
Translated in the KJV as advertise, take advise, advise, consult, (give, take) counsel, determine, devise, guide, purpose.
a primitive root; to advise; reflexively, to deliberate or resolve.
yâʻats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 26Participle (active) 24Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Cohortative 2Participle (passive) 1
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 12Participle (active) 5Perfect (qatal) 3Cohortative 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
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 ›