חָקַר châqar — properly, to penetrate
Translated in the KJV as find out, search, seek, sound, try.
a primitive root; properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately.
châqar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Infinitive construct 5Perfect (qatal) 4Imperative 2Participle (active) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Cohortative 1
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
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 ›