יָגַב yâgab — to dig or plow
Translated in the KJV as husbandman.
a primitive root; to dig or plow.
yâgab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
וּלְיֹגְבִֽים Jer 52:16 Participle (active), masculine plural
But Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
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 ›