סָכַךְ çâkak — (Exodus 33:22), a primitive root
Translated in the KJV as cover, defence, defend, hedge in, join together, set, shut up.
or שָׂכַךְ; (Exodus 33:22), a primitive root; properly, to entwine as a screen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect.
çâkak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 5Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1
And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1Infinitive construct 1
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses.
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily.
Pilpel
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Po'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
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 ›