שָׁשָׁה shâshâh — to sixth or divide into sixths
Translated in the KJV as give the sixth participle.
a denominative from H8337; to sixth or divide into sixths.
shâshâh in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
וְשִׁשִּׁיתֶם֙ Ezek 45:13 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 2nd person masculine plural
This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
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 ›