שָׁכֹל shâkôl — properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion
Translated in the KJV as bereave, barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be childless, deprive, destroy, × expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.
a primitive root; properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively).
shâkôl in each stem
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 5Participle (active) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive construct 1
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 2
Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 1
Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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 ›