שָׁלָה shâlâh — to draw out or off, i.e. remove (the soul by death)
Translated in the KJV as take away.
a primitive root (rather cognate (by contraction) to the base of H5394, H7997 and their congeners through the idea of extracting); to draw out or off, i.e. remove (the soul by death).
shâlâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יֵ֖שֶׁל Job 27:8 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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 ›