שָׁאַב shâʼab — to bale up water
Translated in the KJV as draw(-er, water).
a primitive root; to bale up water.
shâʼab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 5Wayyiqtol 5Infinitive construct 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperative 1
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
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 ›