אָרַר ʼârar — to execrate
Translated in the KJV as × bitterly curse.
a primitive root; to execrate.
ʼârar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 40Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Imperative 4Participle (active) 3Infinitive absolute 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
Pi'el
Participle (active) 6Perfect (qatal) 1
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Niph'al
Participle (passive) 1
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
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 ›
