יָרָה yârâh — properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain)
Translated in the KJV as archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er, -ing), through.
or (2 Chronicles 26:15) יָרָא; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach.
yârâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 30Participle (active) 10Wayyiqtol 7Infinitive construct 5Perfect (qatal) 5Imperative 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 5Participle (active) 3Infinitive construct 3Infinitive absolute 1Wayyiqtol 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperative 1
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
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 ›