כָּבַר kâbar — properly, to plait together, i.e. (figuratively) to augment (especially in number or quantity, to accumulate)
Translated in the KJV as in abundance, multiply.
a primitive root; properly, to plait together, i.e. (figuratively) to augment (especially in number or quantity, to accumulate).
kâbar in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יַכְבִּֽר Job 35:16 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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 ›