שָׁקָה shâqâh — to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to
Translated in the KJV as cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See H7937, H8354.
a primitive root; to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to.
shâqâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 16Imperfect (yiqtol) 14Sequential perfect (weqatal) 12Infinitive construct 7Imperative 5Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 2Cohortative 1
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Pu'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
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 ›