יָהַב yâhab — to give (whether literal or figurative)
Translated in the KJV as ascribe, bring, come on, give, go, set, take.
a primitive root; to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come.
yâhab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 33
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
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 ›