זוּן zûwn — perhaps properly, to be plump, i.e. (transitively) to nourish
Translated in the KJV as feed.
a primitive root; perhaps properly, to be plump, i.e. (transitively) to nourish.
zûwn in each stem
Pu'al
Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them
Participle (passive) 1
מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים Jer 5:8 Participle (passive), masculine plural
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
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 ›