סוּג çûwg — to hem in, i.e. bind
Translated in the KJV as set about.
a primitive root (probably rather identical with H5472 through the idea of shrinking from a hedge; compare H7735); to hem in, i.e. bind.
çûwg in each stem
Qal passive
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Participle (passive) 1
סוּגָ֖ה Song 7:3 Participle (passive), feminine singular
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
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 ›