שָׁעָה shâʻâh — to gaze at or about (properly, for help)
Translated in the KJV as depart, be dim, be dismayed, look, regard, have respect, spare, turn.
a primitive root; to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered.
shâʻâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 2Jussive 2Imperative 2Wayyiqtol 1Cohortative 1
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Hiph'il
Imperative 1
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 ›