שָׁגַח shâgach — to peep, i.e. glance sharply at
Translated in the KJV as look.
a primitive root; to peep, i.e. glance sharply at.
shâgach in each stem
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
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 ›