יָגָה yâgâh — to push away

pronounced yaw-gaw' · Strong's H3014 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Hiph'il

Translated in the KJV as be removed.

a primitive root (probably rather the same as H3013 through the common idea of dissatisfaction); to push away.

yâgâh in each stem

Hiph'il 1×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

הֹגָ֖ה 2Sam 20:13 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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