to go down
ya.rad describes descending or going to a lower place, including being brought down and descent to Sheol.
The verb most often marks people or groups moving downward or traveling to a specified place, whether from a mountain, toward another person, or into battle. Its Hiphil forms show someone or something being brought or lowered down, while several clauses place the descent in the setting of Sheol or death.
Senses in use
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Descending or traveling to a place below · dominant
Qal forms mark people and groups moving downward or toward a destination: in 1 Chronicles 11:15, יֵּרְד֡וּ describes three men going down to David at the cave, and in Deuteronomy 10:5, אֵרֵד֙ is Moses' movement down from the mountain. The same directional movement appears when David goes down to the rock in 1 Samuel 23:25 and when fire comes down from heaven in 2 Kings 1:10.
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Causing a person or object to descend · common
Hiphil forms present an agent bringing, lowering, or removing someone or something downward. In 1 Samuel 19:12, the APB renders the clause "Michal let David down through the window"; in 1 Kings 17:23, Elijah brings the youth down from the upper room. The Hiphil also concerns objects, as the ark is brought down in 1 Samuel 6:15 and the bronze bulls are brought down in 2 Kings 16:17.
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Going down to Sheol or death · occasional
Several clauses use descent with Sheol or death as its stated setting. In 1 Samuel 2:6, the Hiphil participle occurs in the clause the APB renders "he brings down to Sheol," while 1 Kings 2:6 and 1 Kings 2:9 speak of bringing a grey head down to Sheol. In 1 Samuel 26:10, the Qal form occurs in the alternative that a man may go down into battle and perish.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly uses "went down" for directional movement and "brought down" or "let David down" where the supplied morphology is Hiphil. Its English wording confirms the clause-level movement without assigning every English expression directly to the lemma.