יָרַד yârad — to descend (literally, to go downwards
Translated in the KJV as × abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, come down, fall, get down, go down, hang down, × indeed, let down, light.
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications).
yârad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 77Perfect (qatal) 55Participle (active) 46Imperfect (yiqtol) 39Sequential perfect (weqatal) 31Imperative 26Infinitive construct 24Jussive 5Cohortative 4Infinitive absolute 1
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 20Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Sequential perfect (weqatal) 12Imperative 9Perfect (qatal) 7Infinitive construct 2Participle (active) 2
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
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 ›