הָדַר hâdar — to swell up (literally or figuratively, active or passive)
Translated in the KJV as countenance, crooked place, glorious, honour, put forth.
a primitive root; to swell up (literally or figuratively, active or passive); by implication, to favor or honour, be high or proud.
hâdar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (passive) 1
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Hitpa'el
Jussive 1
Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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 ›