לָעַט lâʻaṭ — to swallow greedily
Translated in the KJV as feed.
a primitive root; to swallow greedily; causatively, to feed.
lâʻaṭ in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Imperative 1
הַלְעִיטֵ֤נִי Gen 25:30 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
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 ›