שָׁכַךְ shâkak — to weave (i.e. lay) a trap
Translated in the KJV as appease, assuage, make to cease, pacify, set.
a primitive root; to weave (i.e. lay) a trap; figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically, abate a flood).
shâkak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 2Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 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 ›