חֲשַׁח chăshach — to be necessary (from the idea of convenience) or (transitively) to need
Translated in the KJV as careful, have need of.
(Aramaic) a collateral root to one corresponding to H2363 in the sense of readiness; to be necessary (from the idea of convenience) or (transitively) to need.
chăshach in each stem
Pe'al
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
חַשְׁחִ֨ין Dan 3:16 Participle (active), masculine plural
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
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 ›