יָצַג yâtsag — to place permanently
Translated in the KJV as establish, leave, make, present, put, set, stay.
a primitive root; to place permanently.
yâtsag in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 6Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Cohortative 1Infinitive construct 1Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
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 ›