שִׁית shîyth — to place (in a very wide application)
Translated in the KJV as apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay, let alone, × look, make, mark, put, regard.
a primitive root; to place (in a very wide application).
shîyth in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 33Perfect (qatal) 17Imperative 11Wayyiqtol 10Jussive 6Infinitive construct 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive absolute 1
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
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 ›