שָׁזַף shâzaph — to tan (by sunburning)
Translated in the KJV as look up, see.
a primitive root; to tan (by sunburning); figuratively (as if by a piercing ray) to scan.
shâzaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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 ›