זָרַם zâram — to gush (as water)

pronounced zaw-ram' · Strong's H2229 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Po'el, Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as carry away as with a flood, pour out.

a primitive root; to gush (as water).

zâram in each stem

Po'el 1×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

זֹ֤רְמוּ Ps 77:18 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. (KJV)

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

זְ֭רַמְתָּם Ps 90:5 Perfect (qatal), 2nd person masculine singular

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. (KJV)

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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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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