כָּרַע kâraʻ — to bend the knee
Translated in the KJV as bow (down, self), bring down, cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink, smite down, subdue, × very.
a primitive root; to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate.
kâraʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 12Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Wayyiqtol 5Participle (active) 3Infinitive construct 1Cohortative 1
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive absolute 1Imperative 1
And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
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 ›