שׂוּג sûwg — to hedge in
Translated in the KJV as make to grow.
a primitive root; to hedge in.
sûwg in each stem
Pilpel
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תְּשַׂגְשֵׂ֔גִי Isa 17:11 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person feminine singular
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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 ›