גָּעַר gâʻar — to chide
Translated in the KJV as corrupt, rebuke, reprove.
a primitive root; to chide.
gâʻar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Wayyiqtol 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Participle (active) 2Jussive 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1
And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
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 ›