יָלַךְ yâlak — to walk (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as × again, away, bear, bring, carry, come, depart, flow, follow, get (away, hence, him).
a primitive root (compare H1980); to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses).
yâlak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 365Imperative 239Imperfect (yiqtol) 207Infinitive construct 129Cohortative 40Jussive 15
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 16Participle (active) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Perfect (qatal) 4Imperative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Cohortative 1Infinitive construct 1
And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
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 ›