yahav

This is the verb "give," but with an unusual limitation: in Hebrew it survives only as a command or a plea. You never read that someone "gave" with this word; you only ever hear someone say "Give!" For every other form, the language uses the ordinary verb for giving instead. So the word almost always carries a note of demand or appeal, from a wife asking for children to a leech crying "Give, give."

The senses fan out from the plain act of handing something over. Sometimes what is given is a physical thing or a person. Sometimes it is something furnished on request, like counsel, capable men, or help in battle, where "give" shades toward "provide" or "appoint." And in worship it becomes "ascribe": the command to give the LORD glory and strength does not add anything to God but renders to him the honor already his.

What holds these together is the single motion of directing something toward another party at that party's word. The differences are matters of what is handed over and to whom, not of a different underlying action.

When the command to give is aimed not at a thing but at an action, it turns into a summons: "come now, let us build," "come, let us deal shrewdly." It is the same verb as "give," but here it means give yourself to what follows, so English renders it "come" or "come now."

This use always sits in front of a proposal the speaker wants carried out. The builders at Babel rally each other with it, Pharaoh uses it to plot against Israel, and Judah uses it to press Tamar. The force is not motion from one place to another but the nudge to begin: less "walk over here" than "let's do this."