עָלַע ʻâlaʻ — to sip up
Translated in the KJV as suck up.
a primitive root; to sip up.
ʻâlaʻ in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יְעַלְעוּ Job 39:30 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.
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 ›