יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh — to be ashamed, confused or disappointed
Translated in the KJV as be ashamed, clean, be confounded, dry, shame, × utterly, wither.
a primitive root; to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage).
yâbêsh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 16Imperfect (yiqtol) 11Wayyiqtol 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Infinitive construct 2Infinitive absolute 2
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 25Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Niph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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 ›