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שְׁכַח shᵉkach — to discover (literally or figuratively)

pronounced shek-akh' · Strong's H7912 · 18 occurrences in the Aramaic Bible · 2 stems: Haph'el, Hithpe'el

Translated in the KJV as find.

(Aramaic) corresponding to H7911 through the idea of disclosure of a covered or forgotten thing; to discover (literally or figuratively).

shᵉkach in each stem

Haph'el

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Infinitive construct 2

וּ֠תְהַשְׁכַּח Ezra 4:15 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular

That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed. (KJV)

וְהַשְׁכַּ֔חוּ Ezra 4:19 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine plural

And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. (KJV)

תְהַשְׁכַּ֔ח Ezra 7:16 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine singular

And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem: (KJV)

Hithpe'el

Simple · reflexive — the plain action; the subject does it to or for themselves

Perfect (qatal) 9

וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֣ח Ezra 6:2 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written: (KJV)

הִשְׁתֲּכַ֣ח Dan 2:35 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. (KJV)

הִשְׁתְּכַ֣חַת Dan 5:11 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular

There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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