בָּעַט bâʻaṭ — to trample down, i.e. (figuratively) despise
Translated in the KJV as kick.
a primitive root; to trample down, i.e. (figuratively) despise.
bâʻaṭ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
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 ›