זָרַק zâraq — to sprinkle (fluid or solid particles)
Translated in the KJV as be here and there, scatter, sprinkle, strew.
a primitive root; to sprinkle (fluid or solid particles).
zâraq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 13Sequential perfect (weqatal) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 2Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1
And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Qal passive
Perfect (qatal) 2
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
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 ›