עָכַר ʻâkar — properly, to roil water
Translated in the KJV as trouble, stir.
a primitive root; properly, to roil water; figuratively, to disturb or affict.
ʻâkar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 6Perfect (qatal) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
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 ›