שָׁחַק shâchaq — to comminate (by trituration or attrition)
Translated in the KJV as beat, wear.
a primitive root; to comminate (by trituration or attrition).
shâchaq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
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 ›