שׂוּחַ sûwach — to muse pensively
Translated in the KJV as meditate.
a primitive root; to muse pensively.
sûwach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לָשׂ֥וּחַ Gen 24:63 Infinitive construct
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
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 ›