כָּבַד kâbad — to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable)
Translated in the KJV as abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, × be dim, glorify, be glorious, glory, great, be grievous, harden, be heavy.
or כָּבֵד; a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses).
kâbad in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 18Participle (active) 5Infinitive absolute 4Perfect (qatal) 4Imperative 4Infinitive construct 1Wayyiqtol 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
Niph'al
Participle (active) 15Cohortative 5Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive construct 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (passive) 2Imperative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Perfect (qatal) 7Wayyiqtol 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 9Wayyiqtol 2Infinitive absolute 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Infinitive construct 1Imperative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1
And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Hitpa'el
Imperative 2Participle (active) 1
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
Pu'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (passive) 1
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
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 ›