עָרֵב ʻârêb — to be agreeable
Translated in the KJV as be pleasant, take pleasure in, be sweet.
a primitive root (rather identical with H6148 through the idea of close association); to be agreeable.
ʻârêb in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
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 ›