סָבַךְ çâbak — to entwine
Translated in the KJV as fold together, wrap.
a primitive root; to entwine.
çâbak in each stem
Pu'al
Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יְסֻבָּ֑כוּ Job 8:17 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (passive) 1
סְבֻכִ֔ים Nah 1:10 Participle (passive), masculine plural
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
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 ›