חָרַת chârath — to engrave
Translated in the KJV as graven.
a primitive root; to engrave.
chârath in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (passive) 1
חָר֖וּת Exod 32:16 Participle (passive), masculine singular
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
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 ›