יָדַד yâdad — properly, to handle, i.e. to throw, e.g. lots
Translated in the KJV as cast.
a primitive root; (compare H3034); properly, to handle, i.e. to throw, e.g. lots.
yâdad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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 ›