גָּעַל gâʻal — to detest
Translated in the KJV as abhor, fail, lothe, vilely cast away.
a primitive root; to detest; by implication, to reject.
gâʻal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1
And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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 ›