אָכַף ʼâkaph — to urge
Translated in the KJV as crave.
a primitive root; apparently meaning to curve (as with a burden); to urge.
ʼâkaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
אָכַ֖ף Prov 16:26 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
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 ›