Three consonants carry one idea: high. This is a hollow root (ע״ו): the middle letter ו hides inside the vowels, so the verb "to lift" looks like לְהָרִים rather than a clean three-letter shape. From height Hebrew climbs to the summit, the plateau, the act of lifting, and even the donation, the gift you "raise up" and set apart. Every word here is verified against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
Because the root is hollow (the ו vanishes into vowels), the verbs look irregular: the everyday hif'il לְהָרִים "to lift" keeps no visible ו, while the pi'el לְרוֹמֵם "to exalt" doubles into a fuller, more solemn form. No plain pa'al verb is lexicalized; the static "high" idea lives in the adjective רָם below.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.