צָמֵא tsâmêʼ — to thirst (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as (be a-, suffer) thirst.
a primitive root; to thirst (literally or figuratively).
tsâmêʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 4Wayyiqtol 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
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 ›