זָנַח zânach — reject, forsake, fail
Translated in the KJV as cast away, remove far away.
a primitive root meaning to push aside, i.e; reject, forsake, fail.
zânach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 11Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Jussive 1Wayyiqtol 1
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord:
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
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 ›