שָׁקַל shâqal — to suspend or poise (especially in trade)
Translated in the KJV as pay, receive, spend, × throughly, weigh.
a primitive root; to suspend or poise (especially in trade).
shâqal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Participle (active) 2Infinitive construct 1Infinitive absolute 1
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
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 ›