הָרָה hârâh — to be (or become) pregnant, conceive (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as been, be with child, conceive, progenitor.
a primitive root; to be (or become) pregnant, conceive (literally or figuratively).
hârâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 29Perfect (qatal) 5Participle (active) 3Infinitive absolute 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Po'el
Infinitive absolute 1
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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 ›