שָׁבָה shâbâh — to transport into captivity
Translated in the KJV as (bring away, carry, carry away, lead, lead away, take) captive, drive away.
a primitive root; to transport into captivity.
shâbâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 12Participle (active) 10Perfect (qatal) 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Participle (passive) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1
And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 8
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
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 ›
