זָרַח zârach — properly, to irradiate (or shoot forth beams), i.e. to rise (as the sun)
Translated in the KJV as arise, rise, as soon as it is up.
a primitive root; properly, to irradiate (or shoot forth beams), i.e. to rise (as the sun); specifically, to appear (as a symptom of leprosy).
zârach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive construct 2Wayyiqtol 1Participle (active) 1
Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
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 ›