סוּךְ çûwk — properly, to smear over (with oil), i.e. anoint
Translated in the KJV as anoint, × at all.
a primitive root; properly, to smear over (with oil), i.e. anoint.
çûwk in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Jussive 1Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
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 ›