יָדָה yâdâh — literally, to use (i.e. hold out) the hand
Translated in the KJV as cast, confess, praise, shoot, thank(-ful, -s, -sgiving).
a primitive root; used only as denominative from H3027; literally, to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands).
yâdâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 51Infinitive construct 18Imperative 18Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Jussive 4Participle (active) 2Perfect (qatal) 2Cohortative 1
And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
Hitpa'el
Participle (active) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Wayyiqtol 2Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive construct 1
And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 1
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.
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 ›