יָחַל yâchal — to wait
Translated in the KJV as (cause to, have, make to) hope, be pained, stay, tarry, trust, wait.
a primitive root; to wait; by implication, to be patient, hope.
yâchal in each stem
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Participle (active) 4Imperative 2Cohortative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 3Wayyiqtol 2Cohortative 2Jussive 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
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 ›