שָׁיָה shâyâh — to keep in memory
Translated in the KJV as be unmindful. (Render Deuteronomy 32:18, 'A Rock bore thee, thou must recollect; and thou hast forgotten, ' etc.).
a primitive root; to keep in memory.
shâyâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תֶּ֑שִׁי Deut 32:18 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
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 ›