הָכַר hâkar — to injure
Translated in the KJV as make self strange.
a primitive root; apparently; to injure.
hâkar in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תַּהְכְּרוּ Job 19:3 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine plural
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
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 ›