זָרַב zârab — to flow away
Translated in the KJV as wax warm.
a primitive root; to flow away.
zârab in each stem
Pu'al
Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יְזֹרְב֣וּ Job 6:17 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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 ›
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