שָׁכַם shâkam — properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden)
Translated in the KJV as (arise, be up, get up, rise up) early, morning.
a primitive root; properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from H7926; literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning.
shâkam in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 36Infinitive absolute 14Participle (active) 4Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Cohortative 1
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.
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 ›