חָשַׁק châshaq — to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in
Translated in the KJV as have a delight, desire, fillet, long, set love.
a primitive root; also interchangeable for H2820; to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically; to deliver.
châshaq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 2
All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
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 ›