שָׁלַל shâlal — to drop or strip
Translated in the KJV as let fall, make self a prey, × of purpose, (make a, ) spoil.
a primitive root; to drop or strip; by implication, to plunder.
shâlal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 4Participle (active) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.
Hitpolel
Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
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 ›