זָרָה zârâh — to toss about
Translated in the KJV as cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter, spread, strew, winnow.
a primitive root (compare H2114); to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow.
zârâh in each stem
Pi'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 11Perfect (qatal) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive construct 3Participle (active) 3
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Wayyiqtol 2Participle (active) 2Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man’s name upon his rod.
And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
Pu'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Participle (passive) 1
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Niph'al
Infinitive construct 1Wayyiqtol 1
Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged 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 ›