שָׂכַל sâkal — to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent
Translated in the KJV as consider, expert, instruct, prosper, prudent, skill, have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand, wisdom, (be.
a primitive root; to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent.
sâkal in each stem
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 22Imperfect (yiqtol) 14Infinitive construct 9Perfect (qatal) 7Infinitive absolute 5Imperative 1Cohortative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
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 ›