יָצַק yâtsaq — properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive)
Translated in the KJV as cast, cleave fast, be firm, grow, be hard, lay out, molten, overflow, pour, run out, set down, stedfast.
a primitive root; properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard.
yâtsaq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 12Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Perfect (qatal) 6Participle (passive) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Imperative 3Infinitive construct 2
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 2Participle (active) 2
And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord.
And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
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 ›