עֲגַב ʻăgab — to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually)
Translated in the KJV as dote, lover.
a primitive root; to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually).
ʻăgab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 4Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 1
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
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 ›