יָבַל yâbal — properly, to flow
Translated in the KJV as bring, carry, lead.
a primitive root; properly, to flow; causatively, to bring (especially with pomp).
yâbal in each stem
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 11
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
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 ›
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