יָחַשׂ yâchas — to sprout
Translated in the KJV as (number after, number throughout the) genealogy, be reckoned by genealogies.
a primitive root; to sprout; used only as denominative from H3188; to enroll by pedigree.
yâchas in each stem
Hitpa'el
Infinitive construct 16Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 2
And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
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 ›