סָכַר çâkar — to shut up

pronounced saw-kar' · Strong's H5534 · 3 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Niph'al, Pi'el

Translated in the KJV as stop, give over. See also H5462, H7936.

a primitive root; to shut up; by implication, to surrender.

çâkar in each stem

Niph'al 2×

Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them

Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

וַיִּסָּֽכְרוּ֙ Gen 8:2 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; (KJV)

יִ֝סָּכֵ֗ר Ps 63:12 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

Pi'el 1×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1

וְסִכַּרְתִּי֙ Isa 19:4 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 1st person common singular

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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