יָשַׂם yâsam — to place
Translated in the KJV as be put.
a primitive root; to place; intransitively, to be placed.
yâsam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1
וַיִּ֥ישֶׂם Gen 50:26 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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 ›