חָוַר châvar — to blanch (as with shame)
Translated in the KJV as wax pale.
a primitive root; to blanch (as with shame).
châvar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יֶחֱוָֽרוּ Isa 29:22 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
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 ›