שָׁכַב shâkab — to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Translated in the KJV as × at all, cast down, lay, lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
a primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose).
shâkab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 60Imperfect (yiqtol) 42Participle (active) 28Perfect (qatal) 23Infinitive construct 17Sequential perfect (weqatal) 14Imperative 10Cohortative 4Infinitive absolute 1
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 4Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 1Imperative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
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 ›