מָסַךְ mâçak — to mix, especially wine (with spices)
Translated in the KJV as mingle.
a primitive root; to mix, especially wine (with spices).
mâçak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 4Infinitive construct 1
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
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 ›
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