אָבַס ʼâbaç — to fodder
Translated in the KJV as fatted, stalled.
a primitive root; to fodder.
ʼâbaç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (passive) 2
אֲבוּסִֽים 1Kgs 5:3 Participle (passive), masculine plural
Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
אָ֝ב֗וּס Prov 15:17 Participle (passive), masculine singular
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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 ›