אָדַב ʼâdab — to languish
Translated in the KJV as grieve.
a primitive root; to languish.
ʼâdab in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
וְלַאֲדִ֣יב 1Sam 2:33 Infinitive construct
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
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 ›