שְׁאֵל shᵉʼêl — (Aramaic) corresponding to H7592
Translated in the KJV as ask, demand, require.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H7592.
shᵉʼêl in each stem
Pe'al
Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
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 ›