עָרַב ʻârab — to grow dusky at sundown
Translated in the KJV as be darkened, evening.
a primitive root (rather identical with H6148 through the idea of covering with a texture); to grow dusky at sundown.
ʻârab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Hiph'il
Infinitive absolute 1
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
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 ›