יָנַק yânaq — to suck
Translated in the KJV as milch, nurse, (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).
a primitive root; to suck; causatively, to give milk.
yânaq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 11Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 3Perfect (qatal) 2Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1
And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
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 ›