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שָׂנֵא

to hate

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H8130 Strong's Hebrew
sânêʼ Transliteration
/saw-nay'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 148 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Stem

Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘human’
Piel
An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘personal and national’
Niphal
Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).

Form

Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Participle Active
A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Participle Passive
A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
Infinitive Construct
A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Sequential Perfect
A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Imperative
A direct command (“write!”).
Infinitive Absolute
An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.

State

Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Construct
A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).

Person

1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).
3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).

Gender

Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.

Number

Singular
One.
Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

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